Answers to Questions about Artificial Intelligence
Archive-name: ai-faq
Last-Modified: Tue Jul 20 20:55:36 1993 by Mark Kantrowitz
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*** Topics Covered:
Part 1:
[1-0] What is the purpose of this newsgroup?
[1-1] AI-related Associations and Journals
[1-2] How do I get a copy of the proceedings to conference <x>?
[1-4] What are the rules for the game of "Life"?
[1-5] What AI competitions exist?
[1-8] Commercial AI products.
[1-9] Glossary of AI terms.
[1-10] What are the top schools in AI?
[1-11] How can I get the email address for Joe or Jill Researcher?
Part 2 (AI-related Newsgroups and Mailing Lists):
List of all known AI-related newsgroups, mailing lists, and
electronic bulletin board systems.
Part 3 (Bibliography):
Bibliography of introductory texts, overviews and references
Addresses and phone numbers for major AI publishers
Part 4 (FTP Resources):
[4-0] General Information about FTP Resources for AI
[4-1] FTP Repositories
[4-2] FTP and Other Resources
Part 5 (FTP Resources):
[5-1] AI Bibliographies available by FTP
[5-2] AI Technical Reports available by FTP
[5-3] Where can I get a machine readable dictionary, thesaurus, and
other text corpora?
[5-4] List of Smalltalk implementations.
Part 6 (Expert System Shells):
[6-1] Introduction and Acknowledgements
[6-2] Other Sources of Information
[6-3] Free/Cheap Expert System Shells
[6-4] Commercial Expert System Shells
Search for [#] to get to question number # quickly.
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;;; 20-JUL-93 mk Updated ILOG RULES and SMECI entries in part 6.
;;; 10-AUG-93 mk Added entry on CELP to part 4.
;;; 10-AUG-93 mk Entry on AAAI Robot Building Contest.
;;; 10-AUG-93 mk Added entry on Kappa PC mailing list to part 2.
*** Introduction:
Certain questions and topics come up frequently in the various network
discussion groups devoted to and related to Artificial Intelligence
(AI). This file/article is an attempt to gather these questions and
their answers into a convenient reference for AI researchers. It is
posted on a monthly basis. The hope is that this will cut down on the
user time and network bandwidth used to post, read and respond to the
same questions over and over, as well as providing education by
answering questions some readers may not even have thought to ask.
The latest version of this file is available via anonymous FTP from CMU:
To obtain the file from CMU, connect by anonymous ftp to any CMU CS
machine (e.g., ftp.cs.cmu.edu [128.2.206.173]), using username
"anonymous" and password "name@host". The files ai-faq-1.text,
ai-faq-2.text, ai-faq-3.text, ai-faq-4.text, ai-faq-5.text and
ai-faq-6.text are located in the directory
/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/ai-repository/ai/pubs/faqs/
[Note: You must cd to this directory in one atomic operation, as
some of the superior directories on the path are protected from
access by anonymous ftp.] If your site runs the Andrew File System,
you can just cp the file directly without bothering with FTP.
The FAQ postings are also archived in the periodic posting archive on
rtfm.mit.edu [18.70.0.224]. Look in the anonymous ftp directory
/pub/usenet/news.answers/ in the subdirectory ai-faq/. If you do not
have anonymous ftp access, you can access the archive by mail server
as well. Send an E-mail message to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu
with "help" and "index" in the body on separate lines for more
information.
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Subject: [1-0] What is the purpose of this newsgroup?
The newsgroup comp.ai exists for general discussion of topics related
to Artificial Intelligence. For example, possible topics can
include (but are not necessarily limited to):
announcements of AI books and products
discussion of AI programs and tools
questions about AI techniques
problems implementing an AI technique
Postings should be of general interest to the AI community. See also
part 2 of the FAQ for a list of other more specialized discussion lists.
Every so often, somebody posts an inflammatory message, such as
Will computers every really think?
AI hasn't done anything worthwhile.
These "religious" issues serve no real purpose other than to waste
bandwidth. If you feel the urge to respond to such a post, please do
so through a private e-mail message, or post redirecting follow-ups to
comp.ai.philosophy.
We've tried to minimize the overlap with the FAQ postings to the
comp.lang.lisp, comp.lang.prolog and comp.ai.neural-nets newsgroups,
so if you don't find what you're looking for here, we suggest you try
the FAQs for those newsgroups. These FAQs should be available by
anonymous ftp from rtfm.mit.edu [18.70.0.224] in subdirectories of
/pub/usenet/ or by sending a mail message to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu
with subject "help".
The Lisp FAQ is also available by anonymous ftp from the same ftp
location as the AI FAQ and from ftp.think.com:/public/think/lisp/.
Information about Prolog may be obtained from two sources: The Prolog
FAQ, which is posted twice a month to the newsgroup comp.lang.prolog
by Jamie Andrews <jamie@cs.sfu.ca>, and the Prolog Resource Guide,
which is posted to the newsgroup comp.lang.prolog once a month, and is
available by anonymous ftp from ftp.cs.cmu.edu [128.2.206.173] in the
directory /afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/ai-repository/ai/pubs/faqs/
as the files prolog-resource-guide-1.text and prolog-resource-guide-2.text.
The Robotics FAQ is available by anonymous ftp from ftp.cs.cmu.edu
[128.2.206.173] in the directory /user/nivek/robotics-faq as the files
part1 and part2. To obtain a copy by email, send a message to
mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu containing the following lines:
send usenet/news.answers/robotics-faq/part1
send usenet/news.answers/robotics-faq/part2
On UUCP, it is available at
uunet!/archive/usenet/news.answers/robotics-faq/
as the files part1.Z and part2.Z (or by ftp from ftp.uu.net
[137.39.1.9] in /archive/usenet/news.answers/robotics-faq/).
Information about object-oriented programming can be obtained in the
newsgroups comp.object, comp.lang.clos, and comp.lang.smalltalk.
Information about object-oriented databases can be obtained in the
survey compiled by Stewart Clamen, which may be found either in the
comp.object FAQ posting or in byron.sp.cs.cmu.edu:clamen/evolution-summary
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Subject: [1-1] AI-related Associations and Journals
Associations:
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AAAI)
AAAI, 445 Burgess Drive, Menlo Park, CA 94025.
415-328-3123, info@aaai.org, membership@aaai.org
Membership includes AI Magazine:
$40 regular, $20 student, $60 institution (US/Canadian)
$65 regular, $45 student, $85 institution (Foreign)
AAAI has several special interest groups (SIGs), including one
on manufacturing and one on medicine.
ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTING MACHINERY (ACM)
ACM, 1515 Broadway, New York, NY 10036.
Member Services, 11 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036.
212-869-7440. Fax 212-944-1318. Email: acmhelp@acmvm.bitnet.
$75 regular, $22 student (includes Communications of the ACM)
$15 ($8 students) extra for SIGART membership (gets Sigart Bulletin;
non-member subscription is $41)
$12 ($7 students) extra for Lisp Pointers.
$15 ($10 students) extra for Computing Surveys
$34 ($29 students) extra for Computing Reviews
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERS (IAKE)
IAKE, 11820 Parklawn Drive, Suite 302, Rockville, MD 20852.
301-948-5390
$65 regular, $30 students.
ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS (ACL)
Natural language processing research and applications.
Members receive the journal Computational Linguistics, ISSN 0891-2017.
Regular membership $30 ($20 full-time students not earning a regular
income; $20 for retired), $10 extra for first class/air postage in
North America, $20 elsewhere. For more information write to
Dr. Donald E. Walker (ACL), Bellcore, 445 South Street, MRE 2A379,
Morristown, NJ 07960, USA, call +1-201-829-4312, fax +1-201-829-5981,
or send email to acl@bellcore.com. Institutions must subscribe to
the journal through MIT Press Journals, 55 Hayward Street,
Cambridge, MA 02142, USA, +1-617-253-2889.
INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS (IEEE)
IEEE Service Center, 445 Hoes Lane, PO Box 1331, Piscataway, NJ 08855.
1-800-678-IEEE, 201-981-0060
IEEE membership is $95 regular ($28 students)
For membership in the IEEE Computer Society, add $22 ($13 students).
$20 for IEEE Expert (Intelligent Systems and their Applications)
$12 for Transactions on Neural Networks
$12 for Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
$15 for Transactions on Robotics and Automation
$19 for Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
$24 for Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF APPLIED INTELLIGENCE (ISAI)
Membership is $25 for associate members and $75 for full members.
Full members receive a subscription to the International Journal of
Applied Intelligence (normal institutional rate is $217).
To apply contact Graham Forsyth, secretary, forsyth@fencer.cis.dsto.gov.au.
Or write to ISAI, Department of Computer Science, Southwest Texas
State University, San Marcos, TX 78666-4616, phone 512-245-3409, fax
512-245-3804, or send email to Moonis Ali, president, <ma04@swtexas.bitnet>.
Working groups include CIM -- Learning in Intelligent Manufacturing
Systems, Automatic Failure Diagnostics, Production Management,
Finance, Building Architecture, Scheduling and Planning.
COGNITIVE SCIENCE SOCIETY
Membership: $50 individuals, $25 student. Add $15 overseas postage.
Members receive a copy of the journal Cognitive Science without
additional charge. Write to Alan Lesgold, Secretary/Treasurer,
Cognitive Science Society, LRDC, University of Pittsburgh, 3939
O'Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, fax 1-412-624-9149, email
al+@pitt.edu.
INTERNATIONAL FUZZY SYSTEMS ASSOCIATION (IFSA)
Membership $180, includes a subscription to the International Journal
of Fuzzy Sets and Systems, ISSN 0165-0114.
Write to Prof. Philippe Smets, University of Brussels, IRIDIA, 50 av.
F. Roosevelt, CP 194/6, 1050 Brussels, Belgium.
NORTH AMERICAN FUZZY INFORMATION PROCESSING SOCIETY (NAFIPS)
For more information, contact Thomas H. Whalen, Secretary/Treasurer,
Decision Sciences Department, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303,
404-651-4080, <qmdthw@gsuvm1.gsu.edu>. NAFIPS holds a conference and
a workshop in alternating years.
SOCIETY FOR MACHINES AND MENTALITY
James H. Moor, Treasurer, Society for Machines and Mentality,
Department of Philosophy, Dartmouth College, 6035 Thornton Hall,
Hanover, NH 03755-3592 U.S.A.
603-646-2155. Email: James.H.Moor@Dartmouth.edu
$5 Membership only
$50 Membership with subscription to _Minds and Machines_
CANADIAN SOCIETY FOR COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES OF INTELLIGENCE (CSCSI)
Members receive a subscription to Canadian Artificial Intelligence.
CSCSI/SCEIO, c/o CIPS, 430 King Street West, Suite 205, Toronto,
Ontario M5V 1L5, CANADA
416-593-4040, fax 416-593-5184
Membership: $40 individuals, $30 students
JAPANESE ASSOCIATION FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (JSAI)
OS Bldg. Suite #402
4-7 Tsukudo-cho, Shinjuku-ku
Tokyo 162 Japan
Phone: +81-3-5261-3401
Telfax: +81-3-5261-3402
SOCIEDAD MEXICANA DE INTELIGENCIA ARTIFICIAL (SMIA)
Ofelia Cervantes V, Apartado Postal #5, Universidad de las Americas,
Sta. Catarina Martir Puebla 72820, MEXICO
(52-22) 47-0522, (52-22) 47-4319
AUSTRIAN SOCIETY FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (ASAI)
Postfach 177, Vienna, A-1014, AUSTRIA
(43) 1 535-32810
INTERNATIONAL NEURAL NETWORK SOCIETY (INNS)
Membership is $55/year for non-students and $45/year for students, and
includes a subscription to "Neural Networks", the official journal of
the society.
INNS Membership, P.O. Box 491166, Ft. Washington, MD 20749
INTERNATIONAL STUDENT SOCIETY FOR NEURAL NETWORKS (ISSNNets)
Membership is $5 per year.
ISSNNet, Inc., P.O. Box 15661, Boston, MA 02215
See also comp.org.issnnet.
JAPANESE NEURAL NETWORK SOCIETY (JNNS)
Department of Engineering, Tamagawa University,
6-1-1, Tamagawa Gakuen, Machida City, Tokyo,
194 JAPAN
Phone: +81 427 28 3457
Fax: +81 427 28 3597
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ITALIAN ASSOCIATION (AIIA)
c/o Fondazione Ugo Borboni, Roma - Italy
Contact: Oliviero Stock <stock@irst.it>
Tel: +39 6 54803428
Fax: +39 6 54804405
THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND LAW (IAAIL)
Contact: Prof. Carole Hafner, IAAIL, College of Computer Science,
Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115 USA
Membership: $60 Regular, $35 student (incuding AI and Law Journal)
$25 Reduced (without journal subscription)
ASSOCIATION FOR MACHINE TRANSLATION IN THE AMERICAS (AMTA)
655 Fifteenth Street, NW, Suite 310, Washington, DC 20005
Membership: $40 Associate members, $65 active members, Institutional $200,
Corporate $400. Members receive the MT News International and the
MT Yellow Pages.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND SIMULATION OF BEHAVIOR (AISB)
c/o Alison White, School of Cognitive Science, University of Sussex,
Brighton BN1 9QH
Tel: +44-273-678379
email: alisonw@cogs.susx.ac.uk
Published the AISB Newsletter.
Newsletters:
The Computists' Communique is a weekly online newsletter for AI/IS/CS
scientists. It covers research and funding news; career, consulting,
and entrepreneurial issues; AI-related job postings and journal calls;
FTPable & other resource leads; market trends; analysis and
discussion. The Communique serves members of Computists
International, a professional mutual-aid society. Membership in
Computists International runs $135 for new professional members, $55
for students and the unemployed. There is a 25% discount for Canada,
Western Europe, the UK, Japan, and Australia; other countries and
territories outside the U.S. get a 50% discount. For more
information, contact Dr. Kenneth I. Laws (laws@ai.sri.com),
415-493-7390, 4064 Sutherland Drive, Palo Alto, CA 94303.
Organizations -- Robotics Related:
For a list of organizations that are robotics related, see the FAQ
posting for comp.robotics, maintained by Kevin Dowling <nivek@cs.cmu.edu>.
Note: Some Journals are listed with the publishing organization above.
Journals -- General:
JOURNAL OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH (JAIR)
JAIR is published by the AI Access Foundation, a nonprofit corporation
devoted to the electronic dissemination of scientific results in AI.
JAIR is a refereed publication, covering all areas of AI, that will be
distributed free of charge over the internet by ftp, electronic mail,
and in the newsgroups comp.ai.jair.announce (announcements and
abstracts of new papers) and comp.ai.jair.papers (papers, code, and other
materials, distinguished by subject line). Both will be moderated,
with discussion occurring in comp.ai. In addition, each complete
volume of JAIR will be published by Morgan Kaufmann. JAIR aims to
have a review turn-around time of about 5 weeks, with electronic
publication occurring immediately after the editor receives the final
version of an accepted article. JAIR will begin accepting submissions
on June 15, 1993. Further information regarding submissions can be
obtained by sending a request to jair@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov. [The
newsgroups have not yet been created.]
JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE
Published 4 times annually. ISSN 0824-7935
Basil Blackwell Publishers, Journal Subscription Department,
3 Cambridge Centre, Cambridge, MA 02142 or call 1-800-835-6770.
Blackwell Publishers, 108 Cowley Road, Oxford, OX4 1JF, England.
Individual subscriptions are $85 in North America and $100 in the rest of
the world. Institutional subscriptions are $175 and $190, respectively.
A reduced rate of $40 is available to members of the Canadian
Information Processing Society.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE REVIEW (Survey and Tutorial Journal)
Kluwer Academic Publishers,
101 Philip Drive, Norwell, MA 02061, 617-871-6600, fax 617-871-6528.
PO Box 358, Accord Station, Hingham, MA 02018-0358.
Email: kluwer@world.std.com
The institutional subscription rate is $130 per volume (4 issues).
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Published 18 times annually. ISSN 0004-3702.
$80 individuals (must be a member of one of the major AI societies).
To order in the US, write to AAAI, AI Journal, 445 Burgess Drive, Menlo
Park, CA 94025-3496, or to Elsevier Science Publishing, 655 Avenue of
the Americas, New York, NY 10017, 212-633-3827. Outside the US,
contact Elsevier Science Publishers, Attn: Ursula van Dijk, PO Box 103,
1000 AC Amsterdam, The Netherlands, or call +31-20-5862-608.
COGNITIVE SCIENCE
Ablex Publishing Company,
355 Chestnut Street, Norwood, NJ 07648
201-767-8450, fax 201-767-6717
$50 individual, $125 institution.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL AND THEORETICAL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (JETAI)
Annual subscription, 1992/3, $163; personal subscription, $82.
To order in the US, write to Taylor and Francis, Inc., 1900 Frost
Road, Suite 101, Bristol, PA 19007-1598. Or contact the home office:
Taylor and Francis Ltd, Rankine Road, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK
RG24 0PR (0256) 840366. ISSN 0952-813X
SPANG ROBINSON REPORT ON INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS
Published monthly. ISSN 0885-9957.
Subscriptions: $405 US & Canada, $455 elsewhere.
John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 605 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10158-0012,
212-850-6347, fax 212-850-6088.
MINDS AND MACHINES
Journal for Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy, and Cognitive Science
ISSN 0924-6495
Subscription information and sample copies available from:
Kluwer Academic Publishers Group, P.O. Box 322, 3300 AH Dordrecht,
The Netherlands. In the US, write to Kluwer Academic Publishers, 101
Philip Drive, Norwell, MA 02061.
COMPUTERS AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
I. Plander (ed.)
VEDA Publishing House of the Slovak Academy of Sciences,
Klemenosova 19, 814 30 Bratislava, Slovakia.
Published bimonthly, order from:
Lange & Springer GmbH, Foller Str.2, P.O.B. 10 16 10,
5000 Koln 1, Germany.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AI TOOLS
World Scientific Publishing Co., Inc.
1060 Main Street, River Edge, NJ 07661
Tel: 1-800-227-7562
ANNALS OF MATHEMATICS AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
J.C. Baltzer AG Scientific Publishing Company, Wettsteinplatz 10,
CH-4058 Basel, Switzerland, tel 41-61-691-89-25, fax 41-61-692-42-62.
In the United States, send orders to J. C. Baltzer AG, Scientific
Publishing Company, PO Box 8577, Red Bank, NJ 07701-8577.
Subscriptions: Individuals Sfr. 130.00/$80.00
OBJECT-ORIENTED SYSTEMS
Published 4 times annually. ISSN 0969-9767.
Subscriptions: Institutions US$210/120 pounds EC/130 pounds RoW
Individuals US$93/50 pounds EC/50 pounds RoW
USA/Canada: Journals Promotion Dept., Chapman & Hall, 29 West 35th
Street, New York, NY 20001-2299, USA, 212-244-3336, fax 212-244-3426,
E-mail 71201.1651@compuserve.com.
EC/RoW: Journals Promotions Dept., Chapman & Hall, 2-6 Boundary Row,
London SE1 8HN, UK, +44 (0)71-865-0066, fax +44 (0)71-522-9623, E-mail
journal@chall.mhs.compuserve.com.
Journals -- Applied AI:
APPLIED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Published 4 times annually. ISSN 0883-9514
Subscriptions: Institutions $176; Individuals $84.
Hemisphere Publishing Corp., 1900 Frost Rd., Suite 101, Bristol, PA 19007
215-785-5800, fax 215-785-5515.
(in the UK, write to Taylor & Francis Ltd., Rankine Rd., Baskingstoke,
Hampshire RG24 0PR, UK, call +44-256-840366, or fax +44-256-479438)
APPLIED INTELLIGENCE
The International Journal of Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks,
and Complex Problem-Solving Technologies
Subscriptions: Institutions $217; Individuals $75.
Editor in Chief: Dr. Moonis Ali, Professor of Computer Science, The
University of Tennessee Space Institute, Tullahoma, TN 37388
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers, P.O. Box 358, Accord Station,
Hingham, MA 02018-0358, <kluwer@world.std.com>.
Journals -- AI and Law:
ARTICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND LAW
Subscriptions: $158, including postage
Kluwer Academic Publishers, PO Box 322, 3300 AH Dordrecht, The
Netherlands, or Kluwer Academic Publishers, PO Box 358, Accord
Station, Hingham, MA 02018-0358.
Journals -- AI and Medicine:
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN MEDICINE
Published 6 times annually. ISSN Number 0933-3657.
Subscriptions: $175.
To order in the US, write to Elsevier Science Publishing, 655 Avenue of
the Americas, New York, NY 10017, 212-633-3827. Outside the US,
contact Elsevier Science Publishers, Journal Department, PO Box 211,
1000 AE Amsterdam, The Netherlands, call +31-20-5803-642, or fax
+31-20-5803-598.
Journals -- Automated Reasoning:
JOURNAL OF AUTOMATED REASONING
Published 6 times annually. ISSN 0168-7433
Subscriptions: Individuals $131; Institutions $263; AAR members $65.
Kluwer Academic Publishers, PO Box 322, 3300 AH Dordrecht, The
Netherlands, or Kluwer Academic Publishers, PO Box 358, Accord
Station, Hingham, MA 02018-0358.
AUTOMATED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
The International Journal of Automated Reasoning and Artificial
Intelligence in Software Engineering.
Published quarterly.
Kluwer Academic Publishers, PO Box 322, 3300 AH Dordrecht, The
Netherlands, or Kluwer Academic Publishers, PO Box 358, Accord
Station, Hingham, MA 02018-0358.
Journals -- Concurrent Engineering:
CONCURRENT ENGINEERING: RESEARCH & APPLICATIONS (CERA)
Published quarterly.
Official journal of the Concurrent Engineering Institute of the
International Society for Productivity Enhancement (ISPE).
Academic Press Ltd., 24-28 Oval Road, London, NW1 7DX, UK. Call
71-267-4466, fax 71-482-2293 or 71-485-4752, or email ac2@ib.rl.ac.uk.
Relevant to parallel processing, blackboard systems, distributed AI,
and AI in manufacturing.
For information about submissions, write to Biren Prasad, Managing
Editor, CERA Institute, PO Box 250254, West Bloomfield, MI 48325, call
313-492-0551, fax 313-661-8333, or send email to bprasad@cmsa.gmr.com.
Journals -- Engineering:
ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Published 6 times annually.
Subscriptions: Institutions (1992) 235.00 or approx US$425.00; two year
institutional rate (1992/93) 446.50 or approx US$807.50.
North America: Pergamon Press Inc., 660 White Plains Road,
Tarrytown, NY 10591-55153, USA.
Rest of the World: Pergamon Press Ltd, Headington Hill Hall,
Oxford OX3 0BW, England. Tel: Oxford (0865)794141
Journals -- Expert Systems:
EXPERT SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS
Published 4 times annually. ISSN 0957-4174.
Subscriptions: Institutions L85 ($155), Individuals L45 ($72).
Pergamon Press Inc., 660 White Plains Road, Tarrytown, NY 10591-5153,
email PPI@pergamon.com, or Pergamon Press Ltd., Headington Hill Hall,
Oxford OX3 0BW, England.
EXPERT SYSTEMS: THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING
Published 4 times annually. ISSN 0266-4720.
Subscriptions: L85 ($110)
Learned Information Ltd., Woodside, Hinksey Hill, Oxford OX1 5AU, UK.
Tel: +44 (0)865-730275 Fax: +44 (0)085-736354
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EXPERT SYSTEMS
Published 4 times annually. ISSN 0894-9077.
Subscriptions: Institutions $135; Individuals $75. Outside the US add
$10 for surface mail and $20 for airmail.
JAI Press Inc., 55 Old Post Road -- No. 2, PO Box 1678, Greenwich, CT
06836-1678.
Journals -- Genetic Algorithms:
EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION
Published 4 times annually, beginning April/May 1993.
100 pages per issue, 7x10. ISSN 1063-6550
Editor-in-chief: Kenneth De Jong
Subscription Rates: Individuals $45 ($63.13 Canada, $59 elsewhere),
Institutions $120.00 ($143.38 Canada, $134.00 elsewhere), and
Students/Retired $30.00 ($47.08 Canada, $44.00 elsewhere).
MIT Press Journals, 55 Hayward Street, Cambridge, MA 02142-1399,
617-253-2889, fax 617-258-6779, E-mail hiscox@mitvma.mit.edu.
Journals -- Machine Learning:
MACHINE LEARNING
Published 8 times annually. ISSN 0885-6125
Subscriptions: Institutions $301; Individuals $140. (AAAI Individual
Members $88)
Kluwer Academic Publishers, PO Box 322, 3300 AH Dordrecht, The
Netherlands, or Kluwer Academic Publishers, PO Box 358, Accord
Station, Hingham, MA 02018-0358.
Journals -- NLP/Speech/MT:
COMPUTER SPEECH AND LANGUAGE
Published 4 times annually. ISSN 0885-2308.
Subscriptions: Institutions $136, Individuals $58.
Academic Press Ltd., 24-28 Oval Road, London NW1, England.
MACHINE TRANSLATION
Published 4 times annually. ISSN 0922-6567.
Subscriptions: Institutions $141 plus $16 postage; Individuals $55
(members of ACL $46).
Kluwer Academic Publishers, PO Box 322, 3300 AH Dordrecht, The
Netherlands, or Kluwer Academic Publishers, PO Box 358, Accord
Station, Hingham, MA 02018-0358.
Journals -- Neural Nets/Connectionism:
CONNECTION SCIENCE
Published 4 times annually. ISSN 0954-0091.
Subscriptions: Individual $82, Institution $184, Institution (UK) 74 pounds
Carfax Publishing Company, PO Box 25, Abingdon, Oxfordshire OX14 3UE, UK.
THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NEURAL NETWORKS RESEARCH & APPLICATIONS
Published quarterly. ISSN 0954-9889.
Learned Information Ltd., Woodside, Hinksey Hill, Oxford OX1 5AU, UK.
Tel: +44 (0)865-730275 Fax: +44 (0)085-736354
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NEURAL SYSTEMS
Published quarterly. ISSN 0129-0657
Subscriptions: Individual $42, Institution $88 (plus $9-$17 for postage)
USA: World Scientific Publishing Co., 687 Hartwell Street, Teaneck, NJ
07666, 201-837-8858; Eurpoe: World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte.
Ltd., 73 Lynton Mead, Totteridge, London N20-8DH, England, (01)
4462461; Other: World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., Farrer
Road, P.O. Box 128, Singapore 9128, 2786188.
NEURAL COMPUTING AND APPLICATIONS
Published quarterly.
Official journal of the Neural Computing Applications Forum.
Subscriptions: #120 per annum. (Free to NCAF members.)
Springer Verlag, Service Center Secaucus, 44 Hartz Way, Secaucus, NJ 07094
Tel: 201-348-4033
Springer-Verlag, Springer House, 8 Alexandra Road, LONDON SW19 7JZ
Tel: ..44/0 81 947 1280 Fax: 0 81 947 1274
Spqringer-Verlag, Heidelberger Platz 3, D-1000 BERLIN, Germany
Tel: (0)30 8207-1
NEURAL COMPUTATION
Published quarterly since 1989. ISSN 0899-7667.
MIT Press Journals, 55 Hayward Street Cambridge, MA 02142-9949, 617-253-2889
Subscriptions: Individual $45, Institution $90, Students $35. Add
$9 for foreign subscriptions.
NEURAL NETWORKS
Published 6 times annually. ISSN 0893-6080.
Official journal of the International Neural Network Society.
Subscriptions: $380
Pergamon Press, Ltd., Headington Hill Hall, Oxford OX3 0BW, UK.
Pergamon Press, Inc., 660 White Plains Road, Tarrytown, NY 10591-5153.
Journals -- Pattern Recognition:
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PATTERN RECOGNITION AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Annual subscription, 1992/3, $340; individual subscription, $138. Add
$34 for airmail. Published 5 times a year by World Scientific
Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., Farrer Road, PO Box 128, Singapore 9128.
(In the US, write to World Scientific Publishing Co., Inc., River Edge,
NJ 07661; in Europe to World Scientific Publishing Co., Inc., Totteridge,
London N20 8DH, England.)
PATTERN RECOGNITION
Journal of the Pattern Recognition Society. Members receive the
journal free of charge as part of their membership in the Society.
Institutions may subscribe for $845.
Pergamon Press, Ltd., Headington Hill Hall, Oxford OX3 0BW, UK.
Pergamon Press, Inc., 660 White Plains Road, Tarrytown, NY 10591-5153.
PATTERN RECOGNITION LETTERS
Published 12 times annually. ISSN 0167-8655.
Official publication of the International Association for Pattern
Recognition. Subscriptions: $462 Institutions.
Elsevier Science Publishing, 655 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY
10017, 212-633-3827. Outside the US, contact Elsevier Science
Publishers, Attn: Ursula van Dijk, PO Box 103, 1000 AC Amsterdam, The
Netherlands, or call +31-20-5862-608.
Journals -- Reasoning Under Uncertainty:
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF APPROXIMATE REASONING
The treatment of Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence
Published 8 times a year. ISSN 0888-613X.
Subscriptions: Institutions $282; included with NAFIPS membership
(see NAFIPS entry above).
North-Holland, Elsevier Science Publishing Co., Inc., 655 Avenue of the
Americas, New York, NY 10010
Journals -- Robotics:
INDUSTRIAL ROBOT
ISSN 0143-991X
Published quarterly. $145/year
MCB University Press Limited, 62 Toller Lane, Bradford, West
Yorkshire, England BD8 9BY, (44) 274-499821, fax (44) 274-547143. In
the US, write to MCB University Press Limited, PO Box 10812,
Birmingham, AL 35201-0812, 1-800-633-4931 (1-205-995-1567), fax
1-205-995-1588.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION
Published 4 times annually. ISSN 0826-8185
Subscriptions: $165 US or 313.50 SFr. ($12 US or 22.80 SFr postage and
handling). A special rate is available to members of IASTED.
Write to ACTA Press, PO Box 354, CH-8053, Zurich, Switzerland or ACTA
Press, PO Box 2481, Anaheim, CA 92814.
IASTED is the International Association of Science and Technology for
Development. Individual memberships are $60 US or $120 SFr and
corporate memberships $100 US or $200.00 SFr. Members receive a
complimentary subscription to the journal of their choice; the annual
cost of additional journals for members is $20US/$40SFr per journal.
Write to IASTED, PO Box 25, Station G, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T3A
2G1, or IASTED, PO Box 354, CH-8053, Zurich, Switzerland.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ROBOTICS RESEARCH
MIT Press, 28 Carleton Street, Cambridge, MA 02142
Subscriptions: $50/year to individuals
JOURNAL OF INTELLIGENT & ROBOTIC SYSTEMS
Three issues per volume, $58.50 per volume (individual)
Kluwer Academic Publishers Group, PO Box 322, 3300 AH Dordrecht,
The Netherlands. In the US write to Kluwer Academic Publishers, PO Box 358,
Accord Station, Hingham, MA 02018-0358.
ROBOTICS TODAY
Society of Manufacturing Engineers, One SME Drive, PO Box 930,
Dearborn, MI 48121. 313-271-1500
ROBOTICS WORLD
Published quarterly.
Communication Channels, 6255 Barfield Road, Atlanta, GA 30328
404-256-9800
A magazine of flexible automation for the end-user.
They also publish the Robotics World Directory for $49.95
ROBOT (Japanese)
Industrial Robots and Application Systems
Published bimonthly.
Japan Industrial Robot Association (JIRA)
Kikai-Shinko Building, 3-5-8, Shiba-Kohen, Mina To-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo (03) 3434-2919, fax (03) 3578-1404
ROBOTICA
International Journal of Information, Education and Research
in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence.
Published quarterly, US $179/year.
Cambridge University Press, The Edinburgh Building, Shaftesbury Road,
Cambridge CB2 2RU, UK. In the US write to Cambridge University Press,
Journals Department, 40 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10011-4211.
Journals -- User Modeling:
USER MODELING AND USER-ADAPTED INTERACTION
4 issues per annum, ISSN 0924-1868,
$153.50 p.a. ($50 for individuals)
Kluwer Academic Publishers Group,
P.O. Box 322, 3300 AH Dordrecht,
The Netherlands.
Journals -- Virtual Reality:
PRESENCE
Subscriptions: $50 individual, $120 institutions, $40 students/retired
(higher rates for Canada and overseas)
MIT Press Journals
55 Hayward Street, Cambridge, MA 02142-1399
617-253-2889, fax 617-258-6779
hiscox@mitvma.mit.edu
Journals -- Vision:
MACHINE VISION AND APPLICATIONS
Published 4 times annually. ISSN 0932-8092.
Subscriptions: Institutions $106 (plus $11 p&h); Individuals $54 (incl p&h).
Springer-Verlag New York Inc., Journal Fulfillment Services, 44 Hartz
Way, Secaucus, NJ 07094, 1-800-SPRINGER.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTER VISION
Published 6 times annually. ISSN 0920-5691.
Subscriptions: Institutions $229; Individuals $115. Add $8 for airmail.
Kluwer Academic Publishers, PO Box 322, 3300 AH Dordrecht, The
Netherlands, or Kluwer Academic Publishers, PO Box 358, Accord
Station, Hingham, MA 02018-0358.
Other Journals and Magzines:
If you have the subscription information for the following, please
send a message with that information to mkant+ai-faq@cs.cmu.edu.
Journals:
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Brain and Cognition
Brain and Language
Cognition
Cognition and Brain Theory
Cognitive Psychology
Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing
Human Intelligence
IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Sets and Systems ?
International Journal of Man-Machine Studies
Journal of the Association for the Study of Perception
Journal of Intelligent Systems
Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems
Journal of Logic Programming
Journal of Symbolic Computing
New Generation Computing (logic programming)
Speech Technology
Magazines:
Annual Review in Automatic Programming
Artificial Intelligence Report
IEEE Control Systems Magazine (often has articles about NNs and
fuzzy systems)
Robotics Age
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Subject: [1-2] How do I get a copy of the proceedings to conference <x>?
First, ask your librarian for help. If your local library doesn't have it,
they may be able to get it on interlibrary loan.
If you want to buy your own copy, first check with the organization that
ran the conference. See the answer to question [1-1] for a list of many of
the AI organizations that sponsor conferences.
If they can't help you, contact the Institute for Scientific Information
(ISI), and look up the proceedings in their Index to Scientific and
Technical Proceedings (ISTP volumes). You can contact the ISI at
Institute for Scientific Information, Inc.
3501 Market Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Phone: 215-386-0100
Fax: 215-386-6362
Another source for proceedings author and subject indexes is:
Directory of Published Proceedings.
Series SEMT: Science/Engineering/Medicine/Technology.
Published monthly with annual cumulations by InterDok, Harrison, NY.
ISSN 0012-3293.
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Subject: [1-4] What are the rules for the game of "Life"?
Cellular Automata, of which Life is an example, were suggested by
Stanislaw Ulam in the 1940s, and first formalized by von Neumann.
Conway's "Game of Life" was popularized in Martin Gardner's
mathematical games column in the October 1970 and February 1971 issues
of Scientific American. (Shorter notes on life are alse given in the
column in each month from October 1970 to April 1971, and well as
November 1971, January 1972, and December 1972.) There's also quite a
bit on the game in "The Recursive Universe", by William Poundstone,
Oxford University Press, 1987, 252 pages.
The rules for the game of life are quite simple. The game board is a
rectangular cell array, with each cell either empty or filled. At each
tick of the clock, we generate the next generation by the following rules:
if a cell is empty, fill it if 3 of its neighbors are filled
(otherwise leave it empty)
if a cell is filled, it
dies of loneliness if it has 1 or fewer neighbors
continues to live if it has 2 or 3 neighbors
dies of overcrowding if it has more than 3 neighbors
Neighbors include the cells on the diagonals. Some implementations use
a torus-based array (edges joined top-to-bottom and left-to-right) for
computing neighbors.
For example, a row of 3 filled cells will become a column of 3 filled
cells in the next generation. The R pentomino is an interesting
pattern:
xx
xx
x
Try it with other patterns of 5 cells initially occupied. If you
record the ages of cells, and map the ages to colors, you can get a
variety of beautiful images.
When implementing Life, be sure to maintain separate arrays for the
old and new generation. Updating the array in place will not work
correctly.
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Subject: [1-5] What AI competitions exist?
The Loebner Prize, based on a fund of over $100,000 established by New
York businessman Hugh G. Loebner, is awarded annually for the computer
program that best emulates natural human behavior. During the
contest, a panel of independent judges attempts to determine whether
the responses on a computer terminal are being produced by a computer
or a person, along the lines of the Turing Test. The designers of the
best program each year win a cash award and a medal. If a program
passes the test in all its particulars, then the entire fund will be
paid to the program's designer and the fund abolished. For further
information about the Loebner Prize, write Dr. Robert Epstein,
Executive Director, Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies, 11
Waterhouse Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, or call 617-491-9020.
The BEAM Robot Olympics is a robot exhibition/competition started in
1991. For more information about the competition, write to BEAM Robot
Olympics, c/o: Mark W. Tilden, MFCF, University of Waterloo, Ontario,
Canada, N2L-3G1, 519-885-1211 x2454, mwtilden@watmath.uwaterloo.ca.
The Gordon Bell Prize competition recognizes outstanding achievements
in the application of parallel processing to practical scientific and
engineering problems. Entries are considered in performance,
price/performance, compiler parallelization and speedup categories,
and a total of $3,000 will be awarded. The prizes are sponsored by
Gordon Bell, a former National Science Foundation division director
who is now an independent consultant. Contestants should send a
three- or four-page executive summary to 1993 Gordon Bell Prize,
c/o Marilyn Potes, IEEE Computer Society, 10662 Los Vaqueros Cir.,
PO Box 3014, Los Alamitos, CA 90720-1264, before May 31, 1993.
AAAI has an annual robot building competition. The anonymous FTP site
for the contest is/was aeneas.mit.edu in pub/ACS/6.270/AAAI. This site
has the manual and the rules. To be added to the rbl-94@ai.mit.edu
mailing list for discussing the AAAI robot building contest, send mail
to rbl-94-request@ai.mit.edu. See also the 6.270 robot building guide
in part 3 of this FAQ.
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Subject: [1-8] Commercial AI products.
Commercial Expert System Shells are listed in [6-2].
See the Robotics FAQ for information on Robotics manufacturers.
Stiquito is a small (3cm H x 7cm W x 6cm L), simple (32 parts) and
inexpensive (< $30) nitinol-propelled hexapod robot developed at the
Indiana University (Bloomington) Robotics Laboratory. Its legs are
propelled by nitnol actuator wires. Each leg has one degree of freedom.
The robot walks up to 10 centimeters per minute and can carry a 9-volt
cell, a MOSIS "tiny chip" and power transistors to drive the nitinol
actuator wires. Nitinol wire (aka BioMetal, Flexinol), is a nickel-titanium
alloy which exerts useful force as it is heated by passing a current
through it. IUCS Technical Report 363a describes Stiquito's construction
and is available by anonymous ftp from cs.indiana.edu:/pub/stiquito
(129.79.254.191) as are many other related files. The tech report is also
available by US mail for $5 (checks or money orders should be made payable
to "Indiana University") from Computer Science Department, Attn: TR 363a
215, Lindley Hall, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405. A kit
containing all the materials needed to construct a simple version of
Stiquito and its controller is available for an extra $10 from the above
address (use attn line "Stiquito Kit"). To receive a video showing the
assembly of Stiquito, include an additional $10 and add "Video" to the
"Attn:" line. Anyone may build and use Stiquitos in any quantity for
educational or research purposes, but Indiana University reserves all
rights to commercial applications. Questions about Stiquito should be sent
to Prof. Jonathan W. Mills <stiquito@cs.indiana.edu>. To join the Stiquito
mailing list run by Jon Blow of UC/Berkeley, send mail to
stiquito-request@xcf.berkeley.edu.
Togai InfraLogic, Inc. (TIL) is a supplier of fuzzy logic and fuzzy
expert system software and hardware. For more information, write to
Togai InfraLogic, Inc., 5 Vanderbilt, Irvine, CA 92718, call +1 714
975 8522, fax +1 714 975 8524, or send email to info@til.com or
til!info. TIL also supports an email-server that can be reached at
fuzzy-server@til.com or til!fuzzy-server. Send an email message that
contains just the word "help" in either the subject line or the
message body for more information. A list of products can be obtained
by sending a message that contains only the line "send products.txt"
to the email-server. For an index of the contents of the server, send
a message with the line "send index".
The following is from Risks Digest 13.83 -- I have no idea what the software
does, but Colby did head up the PARRY project:
FEELING HELPLESS ABOUT DEPRESSION? Overcoming Depression 2.0 provides
computer based cognitive therapy for depression with therapeutic
dialogue in everyday language. Created by Kenneth Mark Colby, M.D.,
Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioural Sciences, Emeritus, UCLA.
Personal Version ($199), Professional version ($499). Malibu
Artificial Intelligence Works, 25307 Malibu Rd, CA 90265.
1-800-497-6889.
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Subject: [1-9] Glossary of AI terms.
This is the start of a simple glossary of short definitions for AI terminology.
Strong AI:
Claim that computers can be made to actually think, just like human
beings do. More precisely, the claim that there exists a class of
computer programs, such that any implementation of such a program is
really thinking.
Weak AI:
Claim that computers are important tools in the modeling and
simulation of human activity.
Case-based Reasoning:
Technique whereby "cases" similar to the current problem are
retrieved and their "solutions" modified to work on the current
problem.
Nonlinear Planning:
A planning paradigm which does not enforce a total (linear)
ordering on the components of a plan.
Admissibility:
An admissible search algorithm is one that is guaranteed to
find an optimal path from the start node to a goal node, if
one exists. In A* search, an admissible heuristic is one that never
overestimates the distance remaining from the current node to
the goal.
Fuzzy Logic:
In Fuzzy Logic, truth values are real values in the closed
interval [0..1]. The definitions of the boolean operators are
extended to fit this continuous domain. By avoiding discrete
truth-values, Fuzzy Logic avoids some of the problems inherent in
either-or judgments and yields natural interpretations of utterances
like "very hot". Fuzzy Logic has applications in control theory.
Verification:
The process of confirming that an implemented model works as intended.
Validation:
The process of confirming that one's model uses measureable inputs
and produces output that can be used to make decisions about the
real world.
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Subject: [1-10] What are the top schools in AI?
The answer to this question is not intended to be a ranking and should
not be interpreted as such. There are several major problems with
ratings like the Gourman Report and the US News and World Report. Such
rankings are often unsubstantiated and anecdotal, their accuracy is
questionable, and they do not focus on the subfields of an area. When
selecting a graduate school, students should look for schools which
not only have excellent programs in their general area of research
but also at least one faculty member whose research interests mesh
well with the student's. Accordingly, we've broken down this list
according to topic, and sorted the schools within each topic in
ALPHABETICAL ORDER.
For a school to be added to a topic area, there should at least two
faculty actively conducting research in that area and the school
should have a "good" reputation in that area. Exceptions are made for
schools which only have one faculty member in the area, but that
professor is a "leader" of the area, or for fields where the total
number of people working in the area is small in the first place. The
general idea behind these criteria is to ensure that a school has
enough activity in the area that a student who considers one of these
schools won't be disappointed if one of the faculty in that area is on
sabbatical or isn't taking students.
The best way for students to discover which schools are good in a
field is to ask professors (and graduate students) in their
undergraduate school for suggestions on where to apply. Reading the
research journals in the field is another good method (see question
[1-1]).
A list of email addresses for CS departments is posted once a month to
the newsgroup soc.college.gradinfo.
The Association for Computational Linguistics publishes a directory of
graduate programs in Computational Linguistics ($15 for members, $30
for others). Contact Donald E. Walker (ACL), Bellcore, 445 South Street
MRE 2A379, Morristown, NJ 07960, +1-201-829-4312, acl@bellcore.com
for more information.
NOTE THAT THIS LIST IS PRELIMINARY AND BY NO MEANS COMPLETE.
Please feel free to suggest schools that are particularly strong in
any of these areas, or to suggest new areas to be listed.
Schools with excellent programs in most fields:
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
MIT
Stanford
Georgia Tech
Imperial College
Indiana
Institute for the Learning Sciences, Northwestern University (ILS)
Maryland
Rutgers
SUNY/Buffalo
Sussex University
Toronto
UCLA
UC/Berkeley
Univ. of Edinburgh
Univ. of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
Univ. of Maryland/College Park
Univ. of Massachusetts/Amherst
Univ. of Michigan
Univ. of Pittsburgh
Univ. of Rochester
Univ. of Southern California & USC/Information Sciences Institute
Yale
AI and Manufacturing:
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) -- CIMDS
Univ. of Maryland/College Park
Univ. of Toronto
AI and Medicine:
MIT
Stanford
Univ. of Pittsburgh
AI and Legal Reasoning:
Imperial College
Univ. of Massachusetts/Amherst
Artificial Life:
UCLA
Automated Deduction/Theorem Proving:
Imperial College
Stanford
Univ. of Edinburgh
Univ. of Oregon
Univ. of Texas/Austin
Case-Based Reasoning/Analogical Reasoning:
Chicago
Georgia Tech
Institute for the Learning Sciences, Northwestern University (ILS)
Univ. of Massachusetts/Amherst
Univ. of Pittsburgh
Cognitive Modelling:
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
Georgia Tech
Indiana
Univ. of Maryland/College Park
Univ. of Michigan
Cognitive Science:
Brown University
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
Georgia Tech
Indiana University/Bloomington
Johns Hopkins
MIT
Princeton
Rutgers
SUNY/Buffalo
Stanford
UC/Berkeley
UC/San Diego
Univ. of Colorado/Boulder
Univ. of Edinburgh
Univ. of Minnesota
Univ. of Pennsylvania
Univ. of Rochester
Connectionism/Neural Networks:
Boston University, Cognitive and Neural Systems Department (ART networks)
Brown University
CalTech
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
Indiana
MIT
Ohio State Univ.
Stanford
Syracuse University
Texas A&M
Toronto
UC/Berkeley
UC/Irvine
UC/San Diego
UCLA
UNC/Chapel Hill
Univ. of Colorado/Boulder
Univ. of Edinburgh
Univ. of Helsinki
Univ. of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
Univ. of Maryland/College Park
Univ. of Massachusetts/Amherst
Univ. of Pennsylvania
Univ. of Southern California & USC/Information Sciences Institute
Decision Theory and AI:
Berkeley
MIT
Stanford
Univ. of Michigan
Univ. of Washington
Distributed AI:
Univ. of Massachusetts/Amherst
Univ. of Michigan
Emotion:
Carnegie Mellon University
Institute for the Learning Sciences, Northwestern University (ILS)
Fuzzy Logic:
Berkeley
Genetic Algorithms:
George Mason Univ.
Univ. of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
Univ. of Michigan
UCLA
UC San Diego
Integrated AI Architectures:
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
Stanford
Univ. of Michigan
Intelligent Tutoring, AI & Education:
Carnegie Mellon University (Cognitive Science Department)
Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT)
Institute for the Learning Sciences, Northwestern University (ILS)
Univ. of Pittsburgh
Knowledge Representation:
Institute for the Learning Sciences, Northwestern University (ILS)
Stanford
SUNY/Buffalo
Univ. of Maryland/College Park
Univ. of Oregon
Logic Programming and Logic-based AI:
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
Imperial College
Stanford
UCLA
Univ. of Edinburgh
Univ. of Maryland/College Park
Univ. of Melbourne
Univ. of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
Univ. of Oregon
Univ. of Pennsylvania
Machine Discovery:
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
Machine Learning:
Brown University
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
George Mason
Georgia Tech
Johns Hopkins
MIT
UCI
Univ. of Massachusetts/Amherst
Univ. of Michigan
Univ. of Southern California & USC/Information Sciences Institute
Natural Language Processing (NLU, NLG, Parsing, NLI, Speech):
Brown
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
Columbia
Georgia Tech
Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT)
Institute for the Learning Sciences, Northwestern University (ILS)
ISI
Indiana
MIT
Penn
Stanford
SUNY/Buffalo
Toronto
UCLA
Univ. of Edinburgh
Univ. of Maryland/College Park
Univ. of Massachusetts/Amherst
Univ. of Pittsburgh
Univ. of Rochester
Univ. of Southern California & USC/Information Sciences Institute
Waterloo (stylistics, MT, discourse)
Nonmonotonic Reasoning:
Imperial College
Stanford
UCLA
Univ. of Maryland/College Park
Univ. of Oregon
Toronto
Philosophy of AI:
Berkeley
MIT
Univ. of Maryland/College Park
Planning:
Brown University
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
Imperial College
MIT
Stanford
Univ. of Maryland/College Park
Univ. of Massachusetts/Amherst
Univ. of Oregon
Univ. of Pittsburgh
Univ. of Rochester
Univ. of Washington/Seattle
Waterloo
Production Systems/Expert Systems:
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT)
Stanford
Qualitative Physics and Model Based Reasoning:
Northwestern ILS (Forbus)
Univ. of Oregon
Univ. of Texas
Univ. of Washington
Reasoning Under Uncertainty (Probabilistic Reasoning, Approximate
Reasoning, etc.):
Brown University
George Mason
Oregon State University
Stanford
UCLA
Univ. of Maryland/College Park
Univ. of Rochester
University of South Carolina
Robotics:
Bristol Polytechnic, UK
Brown
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
Georgia Tech
Harvard
Hull University, UK
MIT
Naval Postgraduate School
New York University (NYU) Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
North Carolina State Univerisity/Raleigh (NCSU)
Oxford
Purdue
Reading University, UK
Rennsalear Polytechnic Institute (RPI)
Salford University, UK
Stanford
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
UC/Berkeley
Univ. of Alberta
Univ. of Edinburgh
Univ. of Kansas
Univ. of Kentucky
Univ. of Maryland/College Park
Univ. of Massachusetts/Amherst
Univ. of Michigan
Univ. of Paris INRIA
Univ. of Pennsylvania
Univ. of Southern California & USC/Information Sciences Institute
Univ. of Utah
Univ. of Wisconsin
Yale
Search:
UCLA
Univ. of Maryland/College Park
Univ. of Oregon
Temporal Reasoning:
Imperial College
Virtual Reality:
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
Columbia
Florida Institute of Technology
MIT Media Lab
Naval Postgraduate School
UVA
Univ. North Carolina/Chapel Hill (UNC)
Vision:
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
Columbia
Johns Hopkins
MIT
SUNY/Buffalo
UCLA
Univ. of Edinburgh
Univ. of Maryland/College Park
Univ. of Massachusetts/Amherst
Univ. of Rochester
Univ. of Southern California & USC/Information Sciences Institute
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Subject: [1-11] How can I get the email address for Joe or Jill Researcher?
The AAAI membership directory is updated annually and contains
addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses for many members of AAAI
and other AI societies. Contact info@aaai.org for information on
getting a copy of the directory (you should get a free copy if you are
a member of one of the listed societies).
See also the Email Address FAQ posting to the newsgroups soc.college
and soc.net-people.
The Artificial Intelligence and Molecular Biology Researchers database
contains names, institutions, addresses, phone, fax, email,
research interests and other related information about more than 200
researchers worldwide. The database is available via anonymous ftp from the
host lhc.nlm.nih.gov in the directory /pub/aimb-db. There are computer- and
human- readable versions available. Get the README file for more
information or send email to Larry Hunter, <hunter@nlm.nih.gov>.
E-mail addresses for members of the Linguistics Society of America
(LSA) are available by anonymous ftp as
linguistics.archive.umich.edu:linguistics/LSA.email.list
or by sending a message to listserv@tamvm1.tamu.edu with
"get lsa lst linguist" in the message body.
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Part 2 (AI-related Newsgroups and Mailing Lists):
List of all known AI-related newsgroups, mailing lists, and
electronic bulletin board systems.
Outline:
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[0] How to Subscribe to a Mailing List
[1] AI-related Newsgroups
[2] AI Research in a particular country
[3] Dial-up AI-related Bulletin Board Systems
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[4] Artificial Life
[5] AI Applications to Human-Computer Interface Design
[6] AI in Education
[7] Artificial Intelligence and Law
[8] AI in Medicine
[9] AI for Development
[9b] Advanced Technology for Finance
[10] Cellular Automata
[11] Classification and Clustering
[12] Connectionism and Neural Networks
[13] Cybernetics and Systems
[14] Distributed AI
[15] Intelligent Systems for Economics Digest (IE-Digest)
[16] Expert Systems in Agriculture
[17] Use of Computers in the Fine Arts
[18] Fuzzy Logic
[19] Genetic Algorithms and Genetic Programming
[20] Knowledge Acquisition
[21] Logic Programming, Prolog
[22] Machine Learning
[23] Natural Language Processing
[24] Psychology and Cognitive Science
[25] Robot Controller Boards
[26] Simulated Annealing
[27] Simulation
[28] Symbolic Math
[29] Uncertainty
[30] Vision Research
[31] Qualitative Physics
[40] Miscellaneous: Artificial Morality, etc.
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Subject: [1] AI-related Newsgroups
Subscribe to these using your newsreader.
comp.ai Artificial Intelligence
comp.ai.edu AI and Education
comp.ai.fuzzy Fuzzy Logic. Archived on the Aptronix
FuzzyNet and TIL mail-servers (see [4-1]).
comp.ai.genetic Genetic Algorithms
comp.ai.neural-nets Neural Nets
comp.ai.nat-lang Natural Language Processing (unmoderated)
comp.ai.nlang-know-rep Natural Language and Knowledge Representation
(Moderated).
comp.robotics Robotics. Archived at the anonymous ftp site
wilma.cs.brown.edu:pub/comp.robotics/. Read
the files AuthorIndex and SubjectIndex first.
comp.theory.cell-automata Cellular Automata
comp.theory.self-org-sys Self-Organizing Systems
comp.simulation Simulation
comp.speech Speech related research, including recognition
and synthesis. Archived at the anonymous ftp
site svr-ftp.eng.cam.ac.uk [129.169.24.20] in the
directory comp.speech/archive/. Other useful
information is archived in comp.speech/info/.
sci.lang Linguistics
sci.math.symbolic Symbolic Math
sci.cognitive Cognitive Science
comp.ai.philosophy Philosophical Foundations of AI
comp.ai.shells Expert System Shells
comp.ai.vision Vision Research
sci.virtual-worlds Virtual Reality. Also available through
the bi-directional gateway, VIRTU-L on
LISTSERV@UIUCVMD.BITNET or
LISTSERV@VMD.CSO.UIUC.EDU
comp.lang.lisp Common Lisp
comp.lang.clos Common Lisp Object System
comp.object Object Oriented Programming
FAQ: zaphod.uchicago.edu:/pub/faq{1,2,3}
comp.object.logic Integrating Object-Orientend and Logic Paradigms
comp.lang.scheme Scheme
comp.lang.lisp.mcl Macintosh Common Lisp
comp.lang.lisp.franz Franz Lisp
comp.lang.lisp.x XLisp
comp.lang.prolog Prolog and Logic Programming
comp.lang.pop POPLOG integrated programming language &
environment for Lisp, Prolog, ML and Pop11
comp.lang.smalltalk Smalltalk
comp.lang.ml Standard ML
aicom mcvax!swivax!otten@uunet.uu.net International Usenet AI news
German AI newsgroups:
de.sci.ki
de.sci.ki.announce
de.sci.ki.mod-ki
de.sci.ki.discussion
Of the above newsgroups, the following have FAQ postings:
comp.ai, comp.ai.fuzzy, comp.ai.genetic, comp.robotics,
comp.speech, comp.neural-nets, comp.lang.lisp, comp.lang.scheme,
comp.lang.clos, comp.lang.prolog
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British AI alvey jws%ib.rl.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk
Japanese AI fj-ai%etl.jp@relay.cs.net
German AI mod-ki%unido.irb@unido.bitnet
Mexican AI IAMEX-L on listserv@tecmtyvm.mty.itesm.mx
The IAMEX-L list is administrated by the AI Invetigation Center in
Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM)
in Monterrey, N.L. To be added to that list, please contact:
pl500368@tecmtyvm.bitnet (Juana Maria Gomez Puertos)
pl157961@tecmtyvm.bitnet (Fernando Careaga Sanchez)
The newsgroup de.sci.ki.discussion is the German equivalent of comp.ai.
The newsgroup de.sci.ki.announce is for announcements about AI. The
newsgroup de.sci.ki.mod-ki is moderated by Hans-Werner Hein
<hein@damon.irf.uni-dortmund.de>.
The newsgroup aus.ai is the (unmoderated) Australian equivalent of comp.ai.
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Subject: [3] Dial-up AI-related Bulletin Board Systems
The primary AI-related dial-up bulletin board systems are:
The Interocitor 214-258-1832 (Fido 1:124/2206) V.32bis (14.4kbps)
SysOp: Steve Rainwater Hours: 24
Desc: AI CD-ROM submission site, general AI archive.
ShadeTree BBS 412-244-9416 (Fido 1:129/124) V.22bis (2400bps)
SysOp: Bill Keller Hours: 8:30pm-8:30am only
Desc: Oriented toward beginners in the field.
C.N.S. BBS 509-62706267 (Fido 1:347/303) USR HST (9600bps)
SysOp: Wesley Elsberry Hours: 24
Desc: Best source for neural network related information.
Fuzzy Logic Related BBS's:
Aptronix FuzzyNet:
408-428-1883 N/8/1 1200-19,200 baud
The Turning Point:
512-219-7828 N/8/1 DS/HST 1200-19,200 baud (LIBRARY)
512-219-7848 N/8/1 DS/HST 1200-19,200 baud
Motorola FREEBBS:
512-891-3733 E/7/1 1200-9600 baud
Electronic Design News (EDN) BBS:
617-558-4241 N/8/1 1200-9600 baud
Neural Networks Related BBS's:
Central Neural System, 509-627-6CNS (509-627-6267)
8-N-1, 300-14,400 bps v.32bis or HST
or NEURAL_NET Echo from FidoNet 1:3407/2
Operated by Wesley R. Elsberry, PO Box 1187, Richland, WA 99352,
E-mail: welsberr@sandbox.kenn.wa.us or elsberry@beta.tricity.wsu.edu.
Elsberry will mail you files if you send him a DOS diskette, SASE,
and a list of file names from his F3407_2.ZIP or CNS_FILE.LST index
in the ARTICLES area. You'll need the InfoZip compression program,
which is compatible with the PKZ204G distribution.
Source code for this program for PC/Mac/Unix/Atari is included in
the COMPRESS file area. CNS contains a variety of neural-network
and AI code, mostly for PCs, but some for Unix and Mac.
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Subject: [4] Artificial Life
alife@cognet.ucla.edu
The alife mailing list is for communications regarding artificial
life, a formative interdisciplinary field involving computer science,
the natural sciences, mathematics, medicine and others. Send mail to
alife-request@cognet.ucla.edu to be added to the list.
See also the UCLA Artificial Life Depository in question [4-0].
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Subject: [5] AI Applications to Human-Computer Interface Design
STUDENTS.CHI:
students.chi@xerox.com
The STUDENTS.CHI mailing list has been established by the SIGCHI
Extended Executive Committee (EEC) and Xerox (the corporate sponsor of
the CHI email distribution lists).
The objective of STUDENTS.CHI is to distribute information and
share perspectives of particular concern to students involved in any
aspect of the human factors and computing field. The Human-Computer
Interaction field (HCI) focuses on the research, design, development and
evaluation of human-computer communication and interaction.
Other distribution lists include:
announcements.chi Broadcasts messages of general interest
educators.chi Discussion of education in HCI issues
ii.chi Messages related to intelligent interfaces
intercultural.chi Cross-cultural issues and SIGCHI
socialaction.chi Discussion of CHI-related Social Issues
techprogram.chi Long range planning of CHI conf. program
vision.chi Discussions related to the future of SIGCHI
To be added to a mailing list, send a list of the CHI lists that you
want to receive to Nick Briggs at "Registrar.chi@xerox.com".
AI-CHI:
wiley!ai-chi@lll-lcc.llnl.gov
All requests to be added to or deleted from this list, problems, questions,
etc., should be sent to wiley!ai-chi-request@LLL-LCC.LLNL.GOV.
[This machine seems to be defunct. Anybody knowing the new location
of the mailing list should send mail to mkant+ai-faq@cs.cmu.edu.]
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Subject: [6] AI in Education
AI-ED:
ai-ed@sun.com (was ai-ed@sumex-aim.stanford.edu)
Includes ICAI (intelligent computer aided instruction) and
ITS (intelligent tutoring systems).
All requests to be added to or deleted from this list, problems, questions,
etc., should be sent to ai-ed-request@sun.com.
HUMANIST:
humanist%utorepas.bitnet@cornellc.ccs.cornell.edu
HUMANIST is an international mailing list for discussion of
applications of computers to scholarship in the humanities. AI
or NLP topics sometimes come up.
Interested individuals should send a note together with a brief
biography to the Coordinator in the following format:
*Family-name, Given-names <e-mail address>
Title, mailing address(es), telephone number(s).
Body of biography. This should not be a c.v. and need not be very
detailed but should cover the full range of your professional
activities and interests, both present and past. Mention other things
at your discretion. Biographies vary considerably in length, though
few are less than 100 words or more than 500.
Coordinator:
Willard McCarty <mccarty%utorepas.bitnet@cornellc.ccs.cornell.edu>
NEWEDU-L:
NEWEDU-L@vm.usc.edu
NEWEDU-L is dedicated to exploring new paradigms in education and
how they can be implemented, including, among other things, the role
of artificial intelligence in education.
To subscribe, send a message to listserv@uscvm.bitnet or
listserv@vm.usc.eduwith the following line in the message body:
SUBSCRIBE NEWEDU-L Your_full_name
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SIGNOFF NEWEDU-L
For further information, contact the moderators, Greg Swan and Paul
Privateer, at npadmin@mc.maricopa.edu.
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Subject: [7] Artificial Intelligence and Law
ail-l@austin.onu.edu
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listserv@austin.onu.edu
The body of the message should consist of:
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Subject: [8] AI in Medicine
ai-medicine@med.stanford.edu
Focus is on computer-based medical decision support.
All requests to be added to or deleted from this list, problems, questions,
etc., should be sent to ai-medicine-request@med.stanford.edu
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Subject: [9] AI for Development
aidevaisb.ed.ac.uk
An occasional newsletter for folk interested in AI applications in
and for developing countries. The newsletter is sent to the mailing
list and to the newsgroup comp.society.development.
Send requests to be added to the mailing list to Kathleen King
<kk@aisb.ed.ac.uk>.
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Subject: [9b] Advanced Technology for Finance
at-finance-board@invnext.worldbank.org
The Advanced Technology for Finance Special Interest Group of the INNS
maintains the AT-Finance mailing list for discussions of financial or
economic applications of advanced technology. Discussion sometimes
involves Neural Networks, Genetic Algorithms, Fuzzy Logic, Statistics,
Complexity theory, Artificial Life, and Nonlinear and Chaos Theory.
To subscribe, send mail to at-finance-request@invnext.worldbank.org.
For further information, send mail to the AT-Finance administrator at
<at-finance@invnext.worldbank.org>.
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Subject: [10] Cellular Automata
cellular-automata@think.com (aka ca@think.com)
Gatewayed to the newsgroup comp.theory.cell-automata.
Archived messages may be found at ftp.think.com in the files:
mail/ca.archive*
All other requests to be added to or deleted from this list, problems,
questions, etc., should be sent to cellular-automata-request@think.com.
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Subject: [11] Classification and Clustering
class-l%sbccvm.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu
Mailing list and file server for researchers in classification,
clustering, phylogenetic estimation, and related areas of data
analysis.
To subscribe to CLASS-L you should send a message to the internet address
listserv%sbccvm.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu
The body of the message should consist of:
subscribe CLASS-L <your full name>
To have your name removed from the CLASS-L subscriber list, send:
signoff CLASS-L
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Subject: [12] Connectionism and Neural Networks
Connectionism:
connectionists@cs.cmu.edu
All requests to be added to or deleted from this list, problems,
questions, etc., should be sent to connectionists-request@cs.cmu.edu.
Neural Networks (moderated):
Neuron@cattell.psych.upenn.edu
Neuron-Digest is a moderated list (in digest form) dealing with all
aspects of neural networks (and any type of network or neuromorphic
system). Topics include both connectionist models (artificial neural
networks) and biological systems ("wetware"). The digest is posted to
comp.ai.neural-nets.
All requests to be added to or deleted from this list, problems,
questions, etc., should be sent to neuron-request@cattell.psych.upenn.edu
Neuron Digest archives are kept in the OSU Neuroprose collection
and in cattell.psych.upenn.edu:/pub/Neuron-Digest
Users of the Rochester Connectionist Simulator:
simulator-users@cs.rochester.edu
simulator-bugs@cs.rochester.edu
All requests to be added to or deleted from this list, problems,
questions, etc., should be sent to simulator-request@cs.rochester.edu.
The simulator is available in cs.rochester.edu:/pub/simulator
Users of the Stuttgart Neural Network Simulator:
snns@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de
To be added to the mailing list, send a message to
listserv@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de with
subscribe snns <Your Full Name>
in the message body.
The simulator is available in
ifi.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de:/pub/SNNS/SNNSv2.1.tar.Z [129.69.211.1]
RNA:
RNA on LISTSERV@UTFSM.BITNET
RNA is a Neural Net list in Spanish.
RNA es una lista dedicada a todas aquellas personas interesadas en el
desarrollo e investigacion en el campo de las Redes de Neuronas
Artificiales. El proposito de esta lista es intercambiar
informacion, favorecer el encuentro de personas con intereses
afines, promover la formacion de grupos de trabajos y servir de
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Para subscribirse enviar una nota a LISTSERV@UTFSM.BITNET con el
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Subject: [13] Cybernetics and Systems
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cybsys-l%bingvmb.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu
The Cybernetics and Systems mailing list is an open list serving those
working in or just interested in the interdisciplinary fields of
Systems Science, Cybernetics, and related fields (e.g. General
Systems Theory, Complex Systems Theory, Dynamic Systems Theory,
Computer Modeling and Simulation, Network Theory, Self-Organizing
Systems Theory, Information Theory, Fuzzy Set Theory). The list is
coordinated by members of the Systems Science department of the Watson
School at SUNY-Binghamton, and is affiliated with the International
Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS) and the American Society for
Cybernetics (ASC).
To subscribe to cybsys-l you should send a message to the internet address
listserv@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu
listserv%bingvmb.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu
The body of the message should consist of:
SUB CYBSYS-L <your full name>
To unsubscribe send the following command: UNSUB CYBSYS-L
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Subject: [14] Distributed AI
DAI-List:
Send requests to DAI-List-request@mcc.com
MAAMAW Blackboard (Modeling Autonomous Agents in a Multi-Agent World):
Send requests to demazeau@lifia.imag.fr
Send submissions to maamaw@lifia.imag.fr
Distributed-AI Discussion List:
To subscribe or get help send COMMAND (e.g. HELP) to mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk
Send contributions to distributed-ai@mailbase.ac.uk
For other questions, contact the list owner, lyndon@sx.ac.uk.
Special interest group on cooperating knowledge based systems:
ckbs@cs.keele.ac.uk.
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Subject: [15] Intelligent Systems for Economics Digest (IE-Digest)
IE-list@cs.ucl.ac.uk
The IE-digest aims to act as a forum to exchange ideas on using
`intelligent' techniques to model economic and financial systems.
Calls for papers, paper announcements and queries are welcome.
Techniques which were originally developed to model psychological and
biological processes are now receiving considerable attention as tools
for modelling and understanding economic and financial processes.
These techniques, which include neural networks, genetic algorithms
and expert systems are now being used in a wide variety of
applications including the modelling of economic cycles, modelling of
artificial economies, portfolio optimisation and credit evaluation.
To be added to the list, send mail to IE-list-request@cs.ucl.ac.uk. An
archive of back issues of the digest, as well as papers,
bibliographies and software, may be obtained by anonymous ftp from
cs.ucl.ac.uk:ie (128.16.5.31).
List moderated by Suran Goonatilake, Dept. of Computer Science,
University College London, Gower St., London WC1E 6BT, UK,
<surang@cs.ucl.ac.uk>.
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Subject: [16] Expert Systems in Agriculture
ag-exp-l%ndsuvm1.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu
To subscribe to ag-exp-l you should send a message to the internet address
listserv%ndsuvm1.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu
The body of the message should consist of:
subscribe AG-EXP-L <your full name>
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Subject: [17] Use of Computers in the Fine Arts
fineart%ecs.umass.edu@relay.cs.net
The FINEART Forum is dedicated to International collaboration between
artists and scientists. It is subsidized by the International Society for
the Arts, Science, and Technology (ISAST), 2020 Milvia, Berkeley, CA 94704.
The purpose of this bulletin board is to disseminate information regarding
the use of computers in the Fine Arts. One of the general areas of
interest is Art & AI.
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Subject: [18] Fuzzy Logic
NAFIPS Fuzzy Logic Mailing List at Georgia State University:
NAFIPS-L@gsuvm1.gsu.edu
To subscribe send the following command to LISTSERV@GSUVM1.BITNET:
SUB NAFIPS-L your_full_name
where "your_full_name" is your real name, not your login Id.
Non-BitNet users can join by sending the above command as the only
line in the text/body of a message to LISTSERV@GSUVM1.GSU.EDU.
(NAFIPS = "North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society")
Postings to this mailing list are automatically archived.
Technical University of Vienna Fuzzy Logic Mailing List:
fuzzy-mail@vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at
To subscribe send the following command to
listserv@vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at:
SUB FUZZY-MAIL your_full_name
where "your_full_name" is your real name, not your login Id.
The listserver also gives access to some files, including the
"Who is Who in Fuzzy Logic" database that is currently under
construction by Robert Fuller <rfuller@finabo.abo.fi>.
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Subject: [19] Genetic Algorithms and Genetic Programming
Genetic Algorithms Digest:
GA-List@AIC.NRL.NAVY.MIL (moderated; digest format)
Send subscription requests to the -request form of the list
or to gref@aic.nrl.navy.mil.
Past copies of the digest are archived on ftp.aic.nrl.navy.mil
in the /pub/galist directory. Some software is also archived there.
Discussion of genetic algorithms also appears from time to time in
comp.ai.neural-nets and comp.theory.self-org-sys.
Genetic Programming:
genetic-programming@cs.stanford.edu
A mailing list for discussion of Genetic Programming. See Koza's
book for details.
All requests to be added to or deleted from this list, problems,
questions, etc., should be sent to
genetic-programming-request@cs.stanford.edu
The genetic-programming mailing list is archived on
ftp.cc.utexas.edu:pub/genetic-programming/ along with some code and papers.
Evolutionary Programming Email Digest:
The digest is intended to promote discussions on a wide range of
technical issues in evolutionary optimization, as well as provide
information on upcoming conferences, events, journals, special issues,
and other items of interest to the EP community. Discussions on all
areas of evolutionary computation are welcomed, including artificial
life, evolution strategies, and genetic algorithms. The digest is
meant to encourage interdisciplinary communications.
To subscribe to the digest, send mail to ep-list-request@magenta.me.fau.edu
and include the line "subscribe ep-list" in the body of the text. Further
instructions will follow your subscription.
The digest will be moderated by N. Saravanan of Florida Atlantic
University, <saravan@amber.me.fau.edu>.
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Subject: [20] Knowledge Acquisition
kaw@swi.psy.uva.nl
KAW is a list server provided by the University of Amsterdam for
the knowledge acquisition community. It will carry news and
discussion relating to KA activities.
To join the KAW list, send a message with
subscribe KAW <your name>
in the body to service@swi.psy.uva.nl. For more information about the
list server, send
help
in the body instead.
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Subject: [21] Logic Programming, Prolog
Prolog and Logic Programming:
prolog@sushi.stanford.edu (general)
prolog-hackers@sushi.stanford.edu (nitty gritty)
All requests to be added to or deleted from this list, problems,
questions, etc., should be sent to prolog-request@sushi.stanford.edu
[The host sushi.stanford.edu no longer exists, as of 11/24/92.
Does anybody know the new location of the mailing lists?]
Concurrent Logic Programming:
clp.x@xerox.com
All requests to be added to or deleted from this list, problems,
questions, etc., should be sent to clp-request.x@xerox.com or to
Jacob Levy <jlevy.pa@xerox.com>.
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Subject: [22] Machine Learning
Machine Learning List:
ml@ics.uci.edu
The Machine Learning List is moderated. Contributions should be
relevant to the scientific study of machine learning. Mail requests
to be added or deleted to ml-request@ics.uci.edu.
Back issues may be FTP'd from ics.uci.edu in pub/ml-list/V<X>/<N> or
N.Z where X and N are the volume and number of the issue; ID:
anonymous PASSWORD: <your mail address>
Reinforcement Learning:
reinforce@cs.uwa.edu.au
This is an informal unmoderated mailing list devoted to
reinforcement learning.
To join, send mail to reinforce-request@cs.uwa.edu.au.
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Subject: [23] Natural Language Processing
Information Retrieval:
irlist <ir-l%uccvma.bitnet@vm1.nodak.edu>
To subscribe send the following command to LISTSERV@UCCVMA.BITNET:
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where "your_full_name" is your real name, not your login Id.
Non-BitNet users can join by sending the above command as the only
line in the text/body of a message to
LISTSERV%UCCVMA.BITNET@VM1.NODAK.EDU.
Moderator: IRLUR%UCCMVSA.BITNET@VM1.NODAK.EDU
Natural Language and Knowledge Representation (moderated):
nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu (formerly nl-kr@cs.rochester.edu)
Gatewayed to the newsgroup comp.ai.nlang-know-rep.
BITNET subscribers: we now have a LISTSERVer for nl-kr.
You may send submissions to NL-KR@RPIECS
and any listserv-style administrative requests to LISTSERV@RPIECS.
Back issues are available from host archive.cs.rpi.edu [128.213.10.18]
in the files nl-kr/Vxx/Nyy (ie nl-kr/V01/N01 for V1#1), mail requests
will not be promptly satisfied. If you can't reach `cs.rpi.edu' you
may want to use `turing.cs.rpi.edu' instead. [The archives are in the
process of moving to ftp.cs.rpi.edu [128.213.3.254] and gopher server
cs.rpi.edu (port 70).]
The NL-KR Digest will be slowly evolving into a citeable electronic journal.
All requests to be added to or deleted from this list, problems,
questions, etc., should be sent to nl-kr-request@cs.rpi.edu.
Natural Language Generation:
siggen@cs.rpi.edu
Parsing:
sigparse@cs.cmu.edu
Speech Interfaces:
Electronic Communal Temporal Lobe (or ECTL) is a moderated mailing list
for speech interface enthusiats. To subscribe, send a message with your
name, institution, department, daytime phone and an email address to
ectl-request@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca. If you have trouble with this mail
address, call David Leip at (519) 824-4120 x3709 (office) x4297 (lab).
ECTL has an anonymous ftp archive which is located at
snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca [131.104.48.1] in /pub/ectl. Included in the
archive are: all issues of ECTL, as well as a list of subscribers, lists
of speech related products (s/w & h/w),and a list of speech related
technical report abstracts. If you would like to contribute to the
archive, please mail: ectl-sub@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca If you need
information about how to ftp, or such things, please send mail to:
ectl-request@snoehite.cis.uoguelph.ca
Statistics, Natural Language, and Computing:
empiricists@csli.stanford.edu
Corpus-based studies of natural language, statistical natural language
processing, methods that enable systems to deal with and scale up to
real-world usage, as well as how the various techniques can be useful
in such areas as information retrieval and human-computer interaction.
All requests to be added to or deleted from this list, problems,
questions, etc., should be sent to empiricists-request@csli.stanford.edu
Dependency Grammar
dg@ai.uga.edu
Syntactic theory, analysis, and parsing using dependency grammar
(i.e., using links between individual words rather than a constituency
tree).
All requests for subscriptions or other assistance should be addressed
to mcovingt@ai.uga.edu.
Prosody:
To subscribe, send a one-line message to listserv@purccvm.bitnet
in the following format:
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Translation and Interpretation of Natural Language:
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listserv%finhutc.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu. The sender of the message
you send must be the name (E-mail address) you want to add or remove
from the list. The text body of the message should be:
SUBSCRIBE LANTRA-L your_full_name
or:
SIGNOFF LANTRA-L
where your_full_name is your normal name, not your E-mail address.
Text Analysis and Natural Language Applications:
SCHOLAR%CUNYVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu
SCHOLAR is an online information service covering all aspects of
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Part 3 (Bibliography):
Bibliography of introductory texts, overviews and references
Addresses and phone numbers for major AI publishers
Outline:
[1] AI in general (Introductions, Overviews)
[1a] Major AI Publishers
[2] Search
[3] Knowledge Representation
[4] Logic
[5] Planning
[6] Natural Language Processing (NLP)
[7] Connectionism and Neural Nets
[8] Machine Learning
[9] Case-Based Reasoning
[10] Genetic Algorithms
[11] Production Systems, Expert Systems and Match Algorithms
[12] Integrated AI Architectures
[13] Fuzzy Logic
[14] Artificial Life
[15] Qualitative Physics and Model Based Reasoning
[16] Task-specific Architectures for Problem Solving
[17] Automated Deduction
[18] Probabilistic Reasoning
[19] Nonmonotonic Reasoning and Truth Maintenance Systems (TMS)
[20] Robotics and Computer Vision
[21] Distributed AI
[22] User/Agent Modeling
[23] Philosophy of AI
[24] What is Cyc?
[25] Miscellaneous: PhD Theses
[26] Videotapes and Magazines
Search for [#] to get to question number # quickly.
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Subject: [1] AI in general (Introductions, Overviews)
Introductory texts:
Elaine Rich & Kevin Knight, "Artificial Intelligence", 2nd edition,
McGraw-Hill, New York, 1991. ISBN 0-07-052263-4
Patrick Henry Winston, "Artificial Intelligence", Third Edition,
Addison Wesley, Reading, MA, 1992, ISBN 0-201-53377-4.
Matthew L. Ginsberg, "Essentials of AI", Morgan Kaufmann
Publishers, 1993, ISBN 1-55860-221-6, 430 pages, $49.95.
Overviews and References:
Shapiro, Stuart C. (ed), "Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence",
2nd Edition, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1992. (1st ed, 1987)
Alan Bundy, editor, "Catalogue of Artificial Intelligence
Techniques", 3rd Edition, Springer Verlag, 1990, ISBN 0-387-52959-4,
179 pages, $29.50.
Avron Barr and Edward A. Feigenbaum, "The Handbook of Artificial
Intelligence", volumes 1-4, Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1986.
Sundermeyer, K., "Knowledge-Based Systems: Terminology and References",
Wissenschaftverlag, 1991. ISBN 3-411-14941-8
Bonnie Lynn Webber and Nils J. Nilsson, "Readings in Artificial
Intelligence", Morgan Kaufmann, San Mateo, CA, 1981.
Raymond Kurzweil's "The Age of Intelligent Machines", MIT Press,
1990, 565 pages, ISBN 0-262-11121-7, $39.95. [General Introduction]
Glossaries and Dictionaries:
Raoul N. Smith, editor, "The Facts on File Dictionary of Artificial
Intelligence", Facts on File, New York, 1989, 211 pages.
ISBN 0-8160-1593-3.
Jerry M. Rosenberg, "Dictionary of Artificial Intelligence and
Robotics", Wiley, New York, 1986, 203 pages.
Ellen Thro, "The Artificial Intelligence Dictionary", Microtrend Books,
San Marcos, CA, 1991, 407 pages, ISBN 0-915391-36-8.
P610.8, "Draft Standard Glossary of Artificial Intelligence Terminology"
referenced in "IEEE Std 610.12-1990, IEEE Standard Glossary of
Software Technology, December 1990".
Colin Beardon "Artificial Intelligence Terminology: a reference guide"
John Wiley & Sons, NY, 1989, 283 pages. ISBN 0-7458-0718-6
Older general introductions and overviews:
Nils J. Nilsson, "Principles of Artificial Intelligence", Tioga
Publishing Company, Palo Alto, CA, 1980.
Eugene Charniak and Drew V. McDermott, "Introduction to Artificial
Intelligence", Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1985.
Firebaugh, Morris W., "Artificial Intelligence: A Knowledge-Based
Approach", PWS-Kent, Massachusetts, 1989. ISBN 0-87835-325-9
Emphasis on the role of knowledge in the design of intelligent
systems. Includes intro to AI programming languages, extensive
discussion of expert systems and robotics, survey of parallel
machine architectures, and identification of bottlenecks in
the implementation of useful AI systems.
Surveys:
Howard E. Shrobe, editor, "Exploring Artificial Intelligence",
Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, San Mateo, CA, 1988.
(Survey talks from the AAAI 1986 and 1987 conferences.)
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Subject: [1a] Major AI Publishers
Ablex Publishing Corporation
355 Chestnut Street, Norwood, NJ 07648-2090
201-767-8455/8450
Fax 201-767-6717
Academic Press
1250 Sixth Avenue, San Diego, CA 92101
Orders: 800-321-5068
Fax: 619-699-6715
Addison Wesley Publishing Company, Inc.
Route 128, 1 Jacob Way, Reading, MA 01867
800-447-2226 (617-944-3700)
Fax: 617-944-8243
Benjamin Cummings Publishing Company
2727 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025
415-854-0300
390 Bridge Parkway, Redwood City, CA 94065
800-552-2499, 415-594-4400
Orders: Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Company, Inc., Reading, MA 01867,
800-447-2226, fax 800-333-3328
Canadian Orders: Addison-Wesley Publishers Ltd., PO Box 580, 26 Prince
Andrew Place, Don Mills Ontario, CANADA M3C 2T8
416-447-5101, fax 416-443-0948
International Orders: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, International
Publishing Group, Jacob Way, Reading, MA 01867
617-944-3700, fax 617-944-0826
Information/Examination Copies: 800-950-2665
Blackwell Scientific Publications, Inc.
3 Cambridge Center, Suite 208, Cambridge, MA 02142
617-225-0401
Fax: 617-225-0412
Osney Mead, PO Box 88, Oxford, 0X2 0EL, UK
0865-240201
Cambridge University Press
40 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10022
Orders: 800-221-4512, 212-924-3900
Columbia University Press
562 West 113th Street, New York, NY 10025
800-944-8648
Computer Science Press, Inc.
41 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10010-3546
212-576-9400
Computing Reviews
11 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036
Cornell University Press
Box 250, 124 Roberts Place, Ithica, NY 14851
800-666-2211
Digital Press
12 Crosby Drive, Bedford, MA 01730
617-276-1536
Elsevier Science Publishing
655 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10017
212-633-3827/3650
PO Box 211, Amsterdam, 1000 AE, The Netherlands
020-580-3641
Fax: 020-580-3769
Harvard University Press
79 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
617-495-2600/2480
Houghton Miflin Company
One Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02142
617-252-3000
One Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02108
800-225-3362
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
605 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10158
212-850-6000
Kluwer Academic Publishers
101 Philip Drive, Norwell, MA 02061
617-871-6600
Fax: 617-871-6528.
Email: kluwer@world.std.com
Ftp-server: world.std.com:Kluwer/{journals,books}
The Kluwer ftp server offers the complete table of contents for
Kluwer's EE & CS journals, the Aims & Scope, Instruction for Authors,
Ordering information, and LaTeX style files. This service can also be
reached using gopher.
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
365 Broadway, Hillsdale, NJ 07642
800-926-6579, (201-666-4110)
Fax: 201-666-2394
Little Brown & Company
34 Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02108
617-227-0730
Fax: 617-227-4633
Macmillan Publishing
866 Third Avenue, Third Floor, New York, NY 10022
800-257-5755 (212-702-2000)
McGraw Hill Book Company
1221 Avenue of the Americas, 43rd Floor, New York, NY 10020
800-442-9685 (212-512-2000)
MIT Press
55 Hayward Street, Cambridge, MA 02139
617-253-5642
Orders: 800-356-0343/800-326-4471 (617-625-8569)
Fax: 617-625-6660/9080
Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc.
Department E17, 2929 Campus Drive, Suite 260, San Mateo, CA 94403
Orders: 800-745-7323 (415-578-9911)
Fax: 415-578-0672
Email: morgan@unix.sri.com
Their "Readings in X" series is a good source of information
on various AI topics. (Many of them are listed below.)
Oxford University Press
200 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016
800-451-7556
Pergamon Press
395 Saw Mill River Road, Elmsford, NY 10523
800-257-5755 (914-592-7700)
Prentice Hall Inc.
College Division, 440 Sylvan Avenue, Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632
201-592-2377
Orders: 800-223-1360 (fax to 800-495-6991)
Fax: 201-461-4573
Email: books@prenhall.com
Princeton University Press
41 William Street, Princeton, NJ 08540
800-777-4726
Random House Publishing
201 East 50th Street, New York, NY 10022
212-751-2600
Springer Verlag
175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010
800-777-4643 (201-348-4033)
University Microfilms International
300 North Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48106
313-761-4700
Copies of PhD theses off of microfilm.
University of Chicago Press
5801 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637
800-621-2736 (312-702-7700)
Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, Inc.
115 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10003
212-254-3232
W. H. Freeman & Company
41 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10010
212-576-9400
Fax: 212-689-2383
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
500 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010
800-233-4830 (212-354-5500)
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Subject: [2] Search
[See also the Barr and Feigenbaum's Handbook of AI, chapter 1;
Nilsson's Principles of AI, sections 2.4.1 through 2.4.4 (A*),
sections 3.1 and 3.2 (AND/OR trees and AO*); and the Mackworth paper
in Readings in Artificial Intelligence.]
Pearl, J. and Korf, R. E., "Search techniques", Annual Review of
Computer Science, volume 2, J.F. Traub, B.J. Grosz, B.W. Lampson and
N.J. Nilsson, editors, pages 451-467, Annual Reviews Inc., Palo
Alto, CA, 1987.
L. Kanal and V. Kumar, "Search in Artificial Intelligence",
Springer-Verlag, 1988.
Hans J. Berliner, "The B* Tree Search Algorithm: A Best-First Proof
Procedure", Artificial Intelligence, 12(1):23-40, May 1979. Also
appears in "Readings in Artificial Intelligence".
Pearl, J., "Heuristics: Intelligent Search Strategies for Computer
Problem Solving", Addison-Wesley, 1984.
Kirkpatrick, S. Gelatt, CD, and Vecchi, MP, "Optimization by Simulated
Annealing", Science 220(4589):671-680, 1983.
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Subject: [3] Knowledge Representation
[Several papers in "Readings in Artificial Intelligence" are relevant,
including S. Amarel "On Representations of Problems on Reasoning about
Actions" and P.J. Hayes "The Frame Problem and Related Problems in AI".]
Nick Cercone and Gordon McCalla, editors, "The Knowledge Frontier:
Essays in the Representation of Knowledge", Springer-Verlag, New York,
1987. 512 pages, $40.00, ISBN 0-38796-557-2. (This is the much
revised version of a special issue of COMPUTER on KR.)
Brachman, Ronald J., Levesque, Hector J. and Reiter, Ray, editors,
Special Volume on Knowledge Representation, Artificial Intelligence
49(1-3), January, 1991.
Brachman, Ronald J. and Levesque, Hector J., editors,
"Readings in Knowledge Representation", Morgan Kaufmann
Publishers, 1985.
Ronald J. Brachman and James G. Schmolze, "An overview of the
KL-ONE knowledge representation system", Cognitive Science,
9:171-216, 1985.
Ronald J. Brachman, Richard E. Fikes, and Hector J. Levesque,
"KRYPTON: A functional approach to knowledge representation",
IEEE Computer, 16:67-73, 1983.
Ronald J. Brachman, "On the epistemological status of semantic
networks", in N.V. Findler, editor, Associative Networks, pp. 318-353.
New York: Academic Press, 1979.
Allen Newell, "The Knowledge Level", Artificial Intelligence,
18:87-127, 1982.
Allen Newell and Herb Simon, "Computer Science as Empirical
Enquiry: Symbols and Search", Communications of the ACM,
19(3):113-126, 1976.
Penny Nii, "Blackboard Systems", AI Magazine 7(3), 1986.
Ronald J. Brachman, " ``I lied about the trees'', or, defaults and
definitions in knowledge representation", AI Magazine 6(3):80-93, 1985.
W.A. Woods, "What's in a link: Foundations for semantic networks", In
D.G. Bobrow & A. Collins (Eds.), "Representation and Understanding",
Academic Press, New York, 1975. Reprinted in "Readings in Cognitive
Science", Collins & Smith (eds.), section 2.2.
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Subject: [4] Logic
Genesereth, M.R. and Nilsson, N.J., "Logical Foundations of Artificial
Intelligence", Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Los Altos, CA, 1987.
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Subject: [6] Natural Language Processing (NLP)
General:
Gazdar, G. and Mellish, C., "Natural Language Processing in Lisp:
An Introduction to Computational Linguistics", Addison-Wesley,
Reading, Massachusetts, 1989. (There are three different editions
of the book, one for Lisp, one for Prolog, and one for Pop-11.)
Grosz, B.J., Sparck-Jones, K., and Webber, B.L., "Readings in
Natural Language Processing", Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Los
Altos, CA, 1986.
Robert C. Berwick, "Computational Linguistics", MIT Press,
Cambridge, MA, 1989, ISBN 0262-02266-4.
Brady, Michael, and Berwick, Robert C., "Computational Models
of Discourse", MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1983.
Klaus K. Obermeier, "Natural Language Processing Technologies
in Artificial Intelligence: The Science and Industry Perspective",
John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1989.
Allen, James F., "Natural Language Understanding", The
Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Company, Menlo Park, California,
(Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Reading, Massachusetts),
1988, 550 pages, ISBN 0-8053-0330-8. [A new edition is forthcoming.]
Terry Winograd, "Language as a Cognitive Process", Addison-Wesley,
Reading, MA, 1983.
Schank, R. and Abelson, R. "Scripts, Plans, Goals, and Understandings,"
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, New Jersey, 1977.
Terminology:
David Crystal, "A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics", 3rd Edition,
Basil Blackwell Publishers, New York, 1991.
Parsing:
Tomita, M. (Editor), "Current Issues in Parsing Technology",
Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, MA, 1991.
Tomita, M., "An Efficient Context-Free Parsing Algorithm",
Computational Linguistics 13:31-46, 1987.
Marcus, M. "A Theory of Syntactic Recognition for Natural Language,"
The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1980.
Pereira, F. and Sheiber, S. "Prolog and Natural-Language Analysis,"
Center for the Study of Language and Information, 1987.
Probabilistic Parsing:
Wright, J., "LR Parsing of Probabilistic Grammars with Input
Uncertainty for Speech Recognition", Computer Speech and Language
4:297-323, 1990.
Ted Briscoe and John Carroll, "Generalised Probabilistic LR Parsing of
Natural Language (Corpora) with Unification-based Grammars",
University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, Technical Report Number
224, 1991.
Natural Language Understanding:
E. Charniak, "Passing Markers: A Theory of Contextual Influence in
Language Comprehension", Cognitive Science, 7:171-190, 1983.
Bertram C. Bruce, "Case systems for natural language", Artificial
Intelligence 6:327-360, 1975.
Yorick Wilks, "A Preferential, Pattern-Seeking, Semantics For
Natural Language Inference", Artificial Intelligence, 6:53-74, 1975.
Dyer, M. "In-Depth Understanding: A Computer Model of Integrated
Processing for Narrative Comprehension," MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1983.
Aravind Joshi, Bonnie Webber and Ivan Sag, "Elements of Discourse
Understanding", Cambridge University Press, New York, 1981.
Grosz, Barbara J. and Sidner, Candace L., "Attention, Intention, and
the Structure of Discourse", Computational Linguistics 12(3):175-204, 1986.
Cohen, P. R., Morgan, J. and Pollack, M., editors, "Intentions in
Communication", MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1990.
Natural Language Interfaces:
Raymond C. Perrault and Barbara J. Grosz, "Natural Language
Interfaces", Annual Review of Computer Science, volume 1, J.F. Traub,
editor, pages 435-452, Annual Reviews Inc., Palo Alto, CA, 1986.
Natural Language Generation:
McKeown, Kathleen R. and Swartout, William R., "Language
Generation and Explanation", in Zock, M. and Sabah, G.,
editors, Advances in Natural Language Generation, Volume 1, Pages
1-51, Ablex Publishing Company, Norwood, NJ, 1988. (Overview of
the state of the art in natural language generation.)
There are several books published as a result of the international
workshops on natural language generation.
Speech:
John Allen, Sharon Hunnicut and Dennis H. Klatt, "From Text to Speech:
The MITalk System", Cambridge University Press, 1987. [Synthesis,
precursor of DECtalk.]
Frank Fallside and William A. Woods (editors), "Computer Speech Processing"
Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1985.
X. D. Huang, Y. Ariki and M. A. Jack, "Hidden Markov Models for Speech
Recognition", Edinburgh University Press, 1990. [Analysis]
A. Nejat Ince (editor), "Digital Speech Processing: Speech Coding,
Synthesis, and Recognition", Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston,
1992. [Analysis and Synthesis]
Dennis H. Klatt, "Review of Text-To-Speech Conversion for English",
Journal of the Acoustic Society of America (JASA), 82:737-793,
September 1987. [Synthesis]
Kai-Fu Lee, "Automatic Speech Recognition: The Development of the
SPHINX System", Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, MA, 1989. [Analysis]
S. E. Levinson, L. R. Rabiner and M. M. Sondhi, "An Introduction to the
Application of the Theory of Probabilistic Functions of a Markov Process
to Automatic Speech Recognition" in Bell Syst. Tech. Journal
62(4):1035-1074, April 1983. [Analysis]
R. P. Lippmann, "Review of Neural Networks for Speech Recognition",
Neural Computation, 1(1):1-38, 1989. [Analysis]
Douglas O'Shaughnessy, "Speech Communication: Human and Machine"
Addison-Wesley, MA, 1987. [Analysis and Synthesis]
Lawrence R. Rabiner and Ronald W. Schafer, "Digital Processing of
Speech Signals", Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1978.
[Analysis and Synthesis]
Lawrence R. Rabiner and Biing-Hwang Juang, "Fundamentals of Speech
Recognition", Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1993.
ISBN 0-13-015157-2. [Analysis]
Ronald W. Schafer and John D. Markel (editors), "Speech Analysis",
IEEE Press, New York, 1979. [Analysis]
Alex Waibel and Kai-Fu Lee (editors), "Readings in Speech Recognition"
Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, San Mateo, CA, 1990. [Analysis]
Alex Waibel, "Prosody and Speech Recognition", Morgan Kaufmann
Publishers, San Mateo, CA, 1988. [Analysis]
Linguistics:
Vivian J. Cook, "Chomsky's Universal Grammar: An Introduction", Basil
Blackwell Publisher, New York, 1988, 201 pages.
Victoria Fromkin and Robert Rodman, "An Introduction to Language",
Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, New York, 4th edition, 1988, 474 pages.
Ralph Grishman, "Computational Linguistics: An Introduction",
Cambridge University Press, New York, 1986, 193 pages.
Liliane M.V. Haegeman, "Introduction to Government and Binding
Theory", Basil Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, 1991, 618 pages.
Michael A. K. Halliday, "An Introduction to Functional Grammar",
Edward Arnold, London, 1985.
Geoffrey C. Horrocks, "Generative Grammar", Longman, London, 1987,
339 pages.
Andrew Radford, "Transformational Grammar: A First Course", Cambridge
University Press, New York, 1988, 625 pages.
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Subject: [5] Planning
Intros, Overviews, Paper Collections:
James Allen, James Hendler and Austin Tate, editors,
"Readings in Planning", Morgan-Kaufmann Publishers, 1990.
James Hendler, Austin Tate and Mark Drummond, "AI Planning:
Systems and Techniques", AI Magazine, May, 1990. (Review article.)
Georgeff, M. P., "Planning," in Annual Review of Computer Science,
Annual Reviews Inc., pages 359-400, 1987.
Drew McDermott, "Robot Planning", AI Magazine 13:2, Summer
1992, pp. 55-79.
William R. Swartout, "DARPA Workshop on Planning", AI Magazine,
9(2):115-131, Summer, 1988. (Survey of current work and issues in
planning.)
[See also Waldinger's "Achieving several goals simultaneously", in
"Readings in Artificial Intelligence".]
STRIPS:
Fikes, R.E. and Nilsson, N.J., "STRIPS: A new approach to the
application of theorem proving to problem solving", Artificial
Intelligence 2:189-208, 1971.
ABSTRIPS:
Sacerdoti, E. D., "Planning in a Hierarchy of Abstraction Spaces,"
Artificial Intelligence, 5:115-135, 1974.
Conjunctive Goals:
Chapman, D., "Planning for Conjunctive Goals", Artificial Intelligence
32:333-377, 1987.
NOAH:
Sacerdoti, E., "A Structure for Plans and Behavior", Artificial
Intelligence, pages 1-65, American Elsevier, New York, 1977.
Sacerdoti, E. D., "The Nonlinear Nature of Plans," Proc. of the Fourth
Joint Conf. on Artificial Intelligence, Morgan Kaufmann, 1975, 206-214.
Reactive Planning:
Agre P.E. and Chapman, D., "Pengi: An Implementation of a Theory of
Activity", in Proceedings of the Sixth National Conference on
Aritificial Intelligence, Seattle, WA, July 1987.
Georgeoff, M.P. and Lansky, A.L., "Reactive Reasoning and
Planning", in Proceedings of the Sixth National Conference on
Artificial Intelligence, Seattle, WA, pages 677-682, July 1987.
Simmons, R.G., "A theory of debugging plans and interpretations", in
Proceedings of the Seventh National Conference on Artificial
Intelligence (AAAI-88), Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Palo Alto,
CA, pages 94-99, 1988.
Case-based Planning:
Hammond, K., "Case-based Planning: Viewing Planning as a Memory Task",
Academic Press, Cambridge, MA, 1989.
Miscellaneous:
Stefik, M.J., "Planning with Constraints", Artificial Intelligence
15:111-140 and 16:141-170, 1981.
Wilkins, D.E., "Domain-Independent Planning: Representation and Plan
Generation", Artificial Intelligence 22:269-301, 1984.
R. Wilensky, "Meta-Planning: Representing and Using Knowledge About
Planning in Problem Solving and Natural Language Understanding",
Cognitive Science 5:197-233, 1981. Reprinted in Readings in Cognitive
Science, Collins & Smith (eds.), section 5.6.
Thomas Dean and R. James Firby and David Miller, "Hierarchical
Planning Involving Deadlines, Travel Time, and Resources", Computing
Intelligence 4:381-398, 1988.
R.S. Aylett and A.N. Fish and S.R. Bartrum, "Task planning in an
uncertain world", International Conference on Control 2:801-806, 1991.
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Subject: [7] Connectionism and Neural Nets
Introductions and Overviews:
Geoffrey E. Hinton, "Connectionist Learning Procedures",
Artificial Intelligence 40(1-3):185-234, 1989. Reprinted in
J. Carbonell, editor, "Machine Learning: Paradigms and Methods",
MIT Press, 1990. Also appears as Technical Report CMU-CS-87-115
(version 2), Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, December 1987.
Kevin Knight, "A gentle introduction to subsymbolic
computation: Connectionism for the AI researcher". Technical Report
CMU-CS-89-150, Carnegie Mellon University, School of Computer Science,
Pittsburgh, PA, May 30, 1989.
Scott Fahlman and Geoffrey Hinton, "Connectionist Architectures for
Artificial Intelligence", IEEE Computer 20(1):100-109, January 1987.
Hertz, J., Krogh, A., and Palmer, R.G., "Introduction to the Theory of
Neural Computation", Addison-Wesley, 1991. 327 pages. ISBN 0-201-51560-1.
Hecht-Nielsen, Robert, "Neurocomputing", Addison-Wesley, 1990, 433 pages.
ISBN 0-201-09355-3.
Paper Collections:
Rumelhart, D.E, and McClelland, J.L., editors, "Parallel Distributed
Processing: Explorations in the Microstructure of Cognition" (Vol. 1:
Foundations; Vol. 2: Psychological and Biological Models), Cambridge,
MA: MIT Press, 1986.
Waltz, D., and Feldman, J.A., "Connectionist Models and their Implications:
Readings from _Cognitive Science_", Ablex, 1988.
Mark Watson, "Common Lisp Modules -- Artificial Intelligence in the
Era of Neural Networks and Chaos Theory", Springer-Verlag, 1991.
Includes code written in Macintosh Common Lisp and uses the Mac
graphical interface (the modules are portable to other Common Lisp
implementations, but without the graphics).
Anderson, J.A., and Rosenfeld, E., editors, "Neurocomputing: Foundations
of Research", Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 1988. Also "Neurocomputing
Vol. 2: Directions for Research", Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 1991.
Hinton, G.E., and Anderson, J.A., editors, "Parallel Models of
Associative Memory" (updated edition), Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1989.
Hinton, G.E., editor, "Connectionist Symbol Processing", MIT Press, 1990.
[Was a special issue of Artificial Intelligence, vol. 46, nos. 1-2.]
Touretzky, D.S., editor, "Neural Information Processing Systems", volumes
1-4 (1988-1991), Morgan Kaufmann. [Proceedings from the premier
conference on neural networks.]
Connectionist Language Processing:
See the special issue of _Connection Science_, Volume 2 Numbers 1-2, 1990.
Also the Hinton collection "Connectionist Symbol Processing", above.
Connectionist Cognitive Science:
Barnden, J.A., and Pollack, J.B., "Advances in Connectionist and Neural
Computation Theory Vol. 1: High-Level Connectionist Models", Ablex, 1991.
Quinlan, P., "Connectionism and Psychology: A Psychological Perspective on
New Connectionist Research", University of Chicago Press, 1991.
Waltz, D., and Feldman, J.A., editors, "Connectionist Models and their
Implications: Readings from _Cognitive Science_", Ablex, 1988.
Philosophical Foundations:
Pinker, S., and Mehler, J, editors, "Connections and Symbols", MIT Press,
1988. [Was Cognition special issue Volume 28, 1988]
Clark, A., "Microcognition: Philosophy, Cognitive Science, and Parallel
Distributed Processing", MIT Press, 1989.
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Subject: [8] Machine Learning
General:
J. G. Carbonell, editor, "Machine Learning: Paradigms and Methods", MIT
Press, Cambridge, MA 1990.
Tom Mitchell, Jaime G. Carbonell, and Ryszard S. Michalski,
"Machine Learning: A guide to current research", Kluwer Academic
Publishers, Boston, 1986.
J. W. Shavlik and T. D. Dietterich, editors, "Readings in
Machine Learning", Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1990.
[See also the article on Machine Learning from the Encyclopedia of
Artificial Intelligence, pages 464-485.]
Decision Trees:
Quinlan, J. Ross, "Induction of Decision Trees", Machine Learning
1:81-106, 1986.
Quinlan, J. Ross, "C4.5: Programs for Machine Learning", Morgan Kaufmann
Publishers, 1992. ISBN 1-55860-238-0. $44.95 US, $49.45 International.
For a slight additional charge ($25), the book comes with software (ISBN
1-55860-240-2). For software only, (ISBN 1-55860-239-9) $34.95 US,
$38.45 International.
Probabilistic Clustering:
Fisher, D.H., "Knowledge Acquisition Via Incremental Conceptual
Clustering", Machine Learning 2:139-172, 1987. (Probabilistic
clustering methods.)
Clancey, W.J., "Classification Problem Solving", Proceedings of the
National Conference on Aritificial Intelligence, 49-55, Los Altos, CA,
Morgan Kaufmann. 1984.
Version Spaces:
Tom M. Mitchell, "Generalization as Search", Artificial Intelligence
18:203-226, 1982.
Machine Discovery:
Langley, P., and Zytkow, J. M., "Data-driven approaches to empirical
discovery", Artificial Intelligence 40:283-312, 1989.
Langley, P., Simon, H.A., Bradshaw, G.L., and Zytkow, J.M.,
"Scientific Discovery: Computational Explorations of the Creative
Processes", MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1987.
Langley, P., Simon, H.A. and Bradshaw, G.L., "Heuristics for
Empirical Discovery", in L. Bolc, editor, Computational Models
of Learning, Springer-Verlag, 1987. Also appears as CMU CS
Tech Report CMU-CS-84-14.
Chunking:
Laird J.E., Rosenbloom, P.S. and Newell, A., "Chunking in SOAR: The
Anatomy of a General Learning Mechanism", Machine Learning
1:1-46, 1986.
Explanation-Based Learning:
Mitchell, Tom M., Keller, R. M., and Kedar-Cabelli, S. T.,
"Explanation-based learning: A unified view", Machine Learning
1:47-80, 1986.
Derivational Analogy:
Carbonell, J. G., "Derivational analogy: A theory of
reconstructive problem solving and expertise acquisition." In R.S.
Michalski, Jaime G. Carbonell, and Tom M. Mitchell, editors, Machine
Learning: An Artificial Intelligence Approach, Morgan Kaufmann
Publishers, San Mateo, CA, 1986.
Theoretical Results:
Leslie G. Valiant, "A theory of the learnable", Communications
of the ACM, 27(11):1134--1142, 1984.
Haussler, D., "Quantifying Inductive Bias: AI Learning
Algorithms and Valiant's Learning Framework", Artificial Intelligence,
36:177-221, 1988.
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Subject: [9] Case-Based Reasoning
Roger C. Schank, "Dynamic Memory: A Theory of Reminding and
Learning in Computers and People", Cambridge University Press, New
York, NY, 1982.
Roger C. Schank and C. Riesbeck, "Inside Case-Based Reasoning",
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ, 1989.
Craig Stanfill and David Waltz, "Toward Memory-Based
Reasoning", Communications of the ACM, 29(12):1213-1228,
December 1986. (Memory-based reasoning.)
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Subject: [10] Genetic Algorithms
For an extended bibliography, see the FAQ posting for comp.ai.genetic.
Overviews:
L. B. Booker, D.E. Goldberg and J.H. Holland, "Classifier Systems and
Genetic Algorithms", Artificial Intelligence 40(1-3):235-282,
September 1989.
David E. Goldberg, "Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization, and
Machine Learning", Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1989, 412 pages.
ISBN 0-201-15767-5.
Davis, Lawrence (editor), "Handbook of Genetic Algorithms", Van
Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 1991, ISBN 0-442-00173-8.
See also the July 1992 issue of Scientific American.
Collections:
Davis, Lawrence, editor, "Genetic Algorithms and Simulated
Annealing", Morgan Kaufmann, 1989.
Rawlins, G., editor, "Foundations of Genetic Algorithms", Morgan Kaufmann,
1991.
See also the Proceedings of the First/Second/Third/Fourth International
Conference on Genetic Algorithms, published by Lawrence Erlbaum.
Miscellaneous:
Holland, J.H. "Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems", University
of Michigan Press, 1975. Reprinted by MIT Press, 1992.
Holland, J.H., Holyoak, K.J., Nisbett, R.E., and Thagard, P.R., "Induction:
Processes of Inference, Learning, and Discovery", MIT Press, 1988.
Michalewicz, Z., "Genetic algorithms + Data Structures =
Evolution Programs", Springer-Verlag, New York, 1992.
Genetic Programming:
Koza, John R., "Genetic Programming: On the programming of
computers by means of natural selection", MIT Press, 1992, 819 pages.
ISBN 0-262-11170-5.
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Subject: [11] Production Systems, Expert Systems and Match Algorithms
Overviews:
Bruce G. Buchanan and Edward H. Shortliffe, "Rule-Based Expert
Systems: The MYCIN Experiments of the Stanford Heuristic Programming
Project", Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1985. The Davis and King
paper (chapter 4, "An overview of production systems") provides
a good overview.
Frederick Hayes-Roth, "The knowledge based expert system: A tutorial",
IEEE Computer 17(9):11-28, 1984.
Bruce G. Buchanan and R.O. Duda, "Principles of Rule-Based Systems",
Tech Report HPP-82-14, 1982. (Discusses the design of expert
systems, including representation, inference, and uncertainty
management. Examples from numerous specific systems, and discusses
which problems are suitable for attack by rule-based systems.)
OPS5:
Charles L. Forgy, "OPS5 User's Manual", Technical Report
CMU-CS-81-135, Carnegie Mellon University, School of Computer
Science, Pittsburgh, PA 1981.
RETE:
Charles L. Forgy, "RETE: A fast algorithm for the many
pattern/many object pattern match problem", Artificial
Intelligence 19(1):17-37, September 1982.
TREAT:
Daniel P. Miranker, "TREAT: A better match algorithm for AI
production systems". In Proceedings of the Sixth National
Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-87), pages 42-47,
August 1987.
MatchBox:
Mark Perlin, "The match box algorithm for parallel production
system match", Technical Report CMU-CS-89-163, Carnegie Mellon
University, School of Computer Science, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, May 1989.
DRETE:
Michael A. Kelly and Rudolph E. Seviora, "An evaluation of DRETE
on CUPID for OPS5 matching", in Proceedings of the Eleventh
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-89),
pages 84-90, Detroit MI, August 1989, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers.
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Subject: [12] Integrated AI Architectures
Kurt VanLehn, editor, "Architectures for Intelligence",
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ, 1991.
SOAR:
John E. Laird, Allen Newell, and Paul S. Rosenbloom, "SOAR: An
Architecture for General Intelligence", Artificial
Intelligence, 33(1):1-64, 1987.
PRODIGY:
Steven Minton, Jaime G. Carbonell, Craig A. Knoblock,
Daniel R. Kuokka, Oren Etzioni, and Yolanda Gil.
"Explanation-based learning: A problem solving perspective".
Technical Report CMU-CS-89-103, Carnegie Mellon University,
School of Computer Science, Pittsburgh, PA, 1989.
THEO:
Tom M. Mitchell, J. Allen, P. Chalasani, J. Cheng, Oren Etzioni,
Marc Ringuette, and Jeffrey Schlimmer, "THEO: A Framework for
Self-Improving Systems", in Kurt VanLehn, editor, Architectures for
Intelligence, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ, 1991.
Subsumption Architectures:
Brooks, R., "A Robust Layered Control System for a Mobile Robot",
IEEE Journal of Robotics and Automation, RA-2, pages 14-23, April 1986.
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Subject: [13] Fuzzy Logic
Zadeh, L.A., "Fuzzy Sets," Information and Control, 8, 338-353, 1965.
Klir, George J. and Folger, Tina A., "Fuzzy Sets, Uncertainty, and
Information", Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1988.
Zimmermann, Hans J., "Fuzzy Set Theory and its Applications",
Boston, MA, Kluwer-Nijhoff Publishing, 1985.
Didier Dubois, Henri Prade, and Ronald R. Yager, editors,
"Readings in Fuzzy Systems", Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1992.
Brubaker, D.I., "Fuzzy-logic Basics: Intuitive Rules Replace
Complex Math," EDN, June 18, 1992.
Schwartz, D.G. and Klir, G.J., "Fuzzy Logic Flowers in Japan,"
IEEE Spectrum, July 1992.
Kosko, B., Neural Networks and Fuzzy Systems, Prentice Hall,
Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1992.
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Subject: [14] Artificial Life
The best source for information is the proceedings of the
Artificial Life conferences. The proceedings were edited by
Christopher G. Langton and published by Addison-Wesley.
ISBN 0-201-09356-1 and 0-201-52751-2.
Langton, C.G., editor, "Artificial Life" (Proceedings of the First
International Conference), Addison-Wesley, 1989.
Langton, C.G., Taylor, C., Farmer, J.D., and Rasmussen, S., editors,
"Artificial Life II", Addison-Wesley, 1991.
Forrest, S., editor, "Emergent Computation", MIT Press, 1991.
Levy, S., "Artificial Life", Pantheon, New York, 1992. [An
excellent popularization]
Jean-Arcady Meyer and Stewart W. Wilson, "From animals to animats:
Proceedings of the First International Conference on Simulation of
Adaptive Behavior (1990, Paris, France)", MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,
1991.
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Subject: [15] Qualitative Physics and Model Based Reasoning
QP Theory:
Forbus, K. D., Qualitative Process Theory, Artificial Intelligence,
24:85-168, 1984.
QSIM:
Kuipers, B., Qualitative Reasoning with Causal Models in
Diagnosis of Complex Systems, In D. S. Weld & J. deKleer, editors,
Readings in Qualitative Reasoning about Physical Systems,
pages 257-274, chapter 10, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1989.
MBR-based Diagnosis:
Davis, R., Diagnostic Reasoning Based on Structure and Behavior,
Artificial Intelligence, 24:347-410, 1984.
Function-based MBR:
Sticklen, J., Chandrasekaran, B., & Bond, W.
Distributed Causal Reasoning. Knowledge Acquisition, 1:139-162, 1989.
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Subject: [16] Task-specific Architectures for Problem Solving
Generic Tasks:
Chandrasekaran, B., Towards a Functional Architecture for
Intelligence Based on Generic Information Processing Tasks, In
IJCAI-87, pages 1183-1192, Milan, 1987.
Components of Expertise:
Steels, L., The Components of Expertise. AI Magazine, Summer, 1990.
KADS:
Breuker, J., & Wielinga, B., Models of Expertise in Knowledge
Acquisition, in G. Guida & C. Tasso, editors, Topics in
Expert Systems Design: Methodologies and Tools, Amsterdam:
North Holland Publishing Company, 1989.
Role-limiting Methods:
McDermott, J., Preliminary Steps Toward a Taxonomy of
Problem-Solving Methods, in S. Marcus, editor, Automating
Knowledge Acquisition for Expert Systems, pages 225-255,
Boston: Kluver Academic Publishers, 1988.
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Subject: [17] Automated Deduction/Theorem Proving
C. Chang and R.C. Lee, "Symbolic Logic and Mechanical Theorem
Proving", Academic Press, 1973.
Alan Bundy, "The Computer Modelling of Mathematical Reasoning",
Academic Press, 1983.
David Duffy, "Principles of Automated Theorem Proving", John
Wiley and Sons, 1991.
Larry Wos and Ross Overbeek and Ewing Lusk and Jim Boyle,
"Automated Reasoning. Introduction and Applications", Second Edition,
McGraw-Hill, 1992.
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Automated
Deduction (CADE-11), D. Kapur (editor), Saratoga Springs, NY, USA,
June 15-18, 1992, Lecture Notes in AI 607, Springer-Verlag, 1992, 793
pages. ISBN 0-387-55602-8 and 3-540-55602-8.
[The CADE proceedings have a systems abstracts section with short
descriptions of implemented systems, many of which are available
by anonymous ftp.]
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Subject: [18] Probabilistic Reasoning
Neapolitan, Richard E., "Probabilistic Reasoning in Expert Systems:
Theory and Algorithms", John Wiley and Sons, 1990.
Oliver, Robert M., and Smith, James Q., editors, "Influence Diagrams,
Belief Nets and Decision Analysis", John Wiley and Sons, 1990.
Pearl, Judea, "Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems:
Networks of Plausible Inference", Morgan Kaufmann, San Mateo,
California, 1988. [Bayesian networks]
Shafer, Glenn, and Pearl, Judea, "Readings in Uncertain Reasoning",
Morgan Kaufmann, San Mateo, California, 1990.
R.O. Duda, P.E. Hart, and N.J. Nilsson, "Subjective Bayesian Methods
for Rule-Based Inference Systems", In Proceedings of the 1976 National
Computer Conference, pages 1075-1082, AFIPS, 1976.
Charniak, Eugene, "Bayesian Networks without tears", AI Magazine,
Winter 1991, pages 50-63.
Abduction & Uncertainty:
Charniak, E., "Motivation analysis, abductive unification, and
nonmonotonic equality", Artifical Intelligence 34:275-95.
Kass, A., "Adaptation-based explanation", 11th IJCAI, pages 141-47.
Hobbs, J., et al., "Interpretation as abduction", SRI AI TR #499.
Non-AI, but relevant:
Kahneman, D., Slovic, P., and Tversky, A., "Judgement under
uncertainty", Cambridge University Press.
Micheal Smithson, "Ignorance and Uncertainty: Emerging Paradigms",
Springer-Verlag, 1989.
Current Research:
Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence [2|3|4|5], North-Holland.
Proceedings of the Nth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial
Intelligence, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers.
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Subject: [19] Nonmonotonic Reasoning and Truth Maintenance Systems (TMS)
Matthew L. Ginsberg, "Readings in Nonmonotonic Reasoning",
Morgan Kaufmann, San Mateo, CA, 1987.
Reiter, Ray, "Nonmonotonic Reasoning", Annual Review of Computer
Science, 2:147-186, 1987. (Appears in Ginsberg.)
Doyle, J., "Truth Maintenance Systems", Artificial Intelligence,
12(3):231-272, 1979.
Reiter, Raymond and de Kleer, Johan, "Foundations of Assumption-Based
Truth Maintenance Systems: Preliminary Report", Proceedings of AAAI-87,
pages 183-188.
J.P. Martins, "The Truth, The Whole Truth And Nothing But the Truth:
An Indexed Bibliography to the Literature of TMS's", AI Magazine
(Special Issue), AAAI, 1990.
De Kleer, J., "An assumption-based TMS", Artificial Intelligence
28:127-162, 1986.
De Kleer, J., "Extending the ATMS", Artificial Intelligence
28:163-196, 1986.
De Kleer, J., "Problem Solving with the ATMS", Artificial Intelligence
28:197-224, 1986.
De Kleer, J., "A comparison of ATMS and CSP techniques", IJCAI 1989,
pages 290-296.
Proceedings of AAAI 1988.
Martins & Shapiro, AI Journal, vol. 35, (1988)
Martins & Reinfrank (eds), "Truth Maintenance Systems", published
by Springer Verlag in their 'Lecture Notes in Computer Science'
series, 1991.
Reinfrank, M., Dressler, O. and Brewka, G., On the Relation
Between Truth Maintenance and Autoepistemic Logic, IJCAI 1989.
Selman, B. and Levesque, H.J., "Abductive and Default Reasoning: A
Computational Core", Proceedings of AAAI-90.
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Subject: [20] Robotics and Computer Vision
Introductions:
John J. Craig, "Introduction to Robotics", Addison-Wesley,
Reading, MA, 1989.
David Marr, "Vision: a computational investigation into the human
representation and processing of visual information", W.H. Freeman,
San Francisco, CA, 1982.
[Three papers in the Encyclopedia of Aritificial Intelligence are
relevant:
Path planning and obstacle avoidance, pages 708-715
Mobile robots, pages 957-961
Sensors, pages 1031-1036]
Surveys:
J. Michael Brady, "Computational approaches to image understanding",
ACM Computing Surveys 14(1):3-71, March 1982. (Survey of methods in
computer vision.)
Paper Collections:
Martin A. Fischler and Oscar Firschein, editors, "Readings in
Computer Vision", Morgan Kaufmann, San Mateo, CA, 1987.
Miscellaneous:
The 6.270 Robot Builder's Guide, by Fred Martin. Available by
anonymous ftp from kame.media.mit.edu (18.85.0.45) in
~ftp/pub/fredm/README or in cherupakha.media.mit.edu:pub/6270/docs
[18.85.0.47]. This directory contains "The 6.270 Robot
Builder's Guide", the course notes to the 1992 MIT LEGO Robot Design
Competition. For more information, contact Fred Martin
<fredm@media.mit.edu>.
Autonomous Agents:
Rodney A. Brooks, "A Robust Layered Control System for a Mobile
Robot", IEEE Journal of Robotics and Automation, 2:14-23, 1986.
Rodney A. Brooks, "A Robot that Walks: Emergent Behaviour from a
Carefully Evolved Network", Neural Computation, 1(2), 1989.
Pattie Maes and Rodney A. Brooks, "Learning to Coordinate Behaviours",
Proceedings of AAAI-90, 1990.
Pattie Maes, "How to do the right thing", Connection Science
1(3):291-323, 1990, special issue on Hybrid Systems.
Pattie Maes, "Designing Autonomous Agents: Theory and Practice from
Biology to Engineering and Back", MIT Press, 1991.
Pattie Maes, "A bottom-up mechanism for action selection in an
artificial creature", in Adaptive Behaviour: From Animals to Animats,
edited by S. Wilson and J-A Meijer, MIT Press, 1991.
W. Lim and J. Eilbert, "Plan-behaviour interaction in autonomous
navigation", Proceedings of the SPIE, 1388:464-475, 1991.
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Subject: [21] Distributed AI
Collections:
Alan H. Bond and Les Gasser, "Readings in Distributed
Artificial Intelligence", Morgan Kaufmann, San Mateo, CA, 1988.
Michael N. Huhns, ed., "Distributed Artificial
Intelligence", Morgan Kaufmann, 1987.
Les Gasser and Michael N. Huhns, eds., "Distributed
Artificial Intelligence, Volume II", Morgan Kaufmann, 1989.
(Special Issue on Distributed AI) IEEE Transactions on
Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Vol. 11, No. 1, Jan 1981.
(Special Issue on Distributed AI---10 years later) IEEE
Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Vol. 21,
No. 6, Nov/Dec 1991.
Decentralized Artificial Intelligence, Y. Demazeau ed. 1990,
Decentralized AI 2, Demazeau, Y. & Muller, J-P, eds. 1991,
Decentralized AI 3, Werner & Demazeau eds. 1992,
all published by Elsevier Science Publishers .
[Surveys can be found in the Bond & Gasser book listed above,
and in: The Handbook of AI volume 4 1989; IEEE Systems, Man,
and Cybernetics-17(5) 1987; Kluwer Academic's AI Review-6(1)1992.]
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Subject: [22] User/Agent Modeling
Rapaport,W. J. (1987) "Belief Systems", in the Encyclopedia of
Artificial Intelligence, pp. 63-73.
Afzal Ballim and Yorick Wilks, "Artifical Believers", Lawrence
Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ, 1991. ISBN 0-8058-0453-6.
Contains a 92 page background section on belief modeling in AI,
Philosophy, NLP and Linguistics.
Kobsa, A. & Wahlster, W. (1989) "User Models in Dialog Systems."
Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg.
See also the journal User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction in [1-1].
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Subject: [23] Philosophy of AI
D. McDermott, "Artificial Intelligence Meets Natural Stupidity," in
Mind Design: Philosophy, Psychology, Artificial Intelligence, J.
Haugeland, editor, chapter 5, pp. 143-160, MIT Press, 1981.
H.A. Simon, "Sciences of the Artificial", 2nd Edition, MIT Press, 1981.
A.M. Turing, "Computing Machinery And Intelligence," Mind, vol. LIX,
no. 236, 1950. Reprinted in "Computers and Thought", Feigenbaum &
Feldman (eds.), 1963. Also reprinted in "The Mind's I", Hofstadter &
Dennett (eds.). Also reprinted in "Readings in Cognitive Science",
Collins & Smith (eds.), section 1.1.
Roger Penrose, "The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning computers,
minds, and the laws of physics", Oxford University Press, New York,
1989, 466 pages, $30.
Douglas R. Hofstadter and Daniel C. Dennett, "The Mind's I:
Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul", Basic Books, New
York, 1981, 501 pages, $15.50.
Daniel C. Dennett, "Consciousness explained", 1st edition, Little,
Brown and Company, Boston, 1991, 511 pages, $27.95.
John Haugeland, "Artificial Intelligence: The very idea", MIT Press,
Cambridge, MA, 1985, 287 pages.
John Haugeland, editor, "Mind Design: Philosophy, Psychology,
Artificial Intelligence", MIT Press, Cambridge, MA 1981, 368 pages.
Margaret A. Boden, editor, "The Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence",
Oxford University Press, New York, 1990, 452 pages.
Hans Moravec, "Mind Children: The future of robot and human intelligence",
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1988, 214 pages.
Kirsh, D., editor, "Foundations of Artificial Intelligence, Special
issues of Artificial Intelligence", The MIT Press, 1991. Reprinted
from Artificial Intelligence 47(1--3), 1991.
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Subject: [24] What is Cyc?
Cyc is a project at MCC in Texas to build an enCYClopedic database and
reasoning engine for common sense knowledge.
"CYC", AI Magazine 1986, 7(1), 1986.
"Cyc: A Mid-Term Report," AI Magazine, 11(3):32-59, Fall 1990.
"Cyc: Toward Programs With Common Sense," CACM, 33(8):30-49,
August 1990.
"Knowledge and Natural Language Processing," CACM, Aug 1990.
"When will machines learn?," Machine Learning, 4(3-4):255-257,
December 1989.
D.B. Lenat, R.V. Guha, "Building Large Knowledge-Based Systems",
Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA.
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Subject: [25] Miscellaneous: PhD Theses
Be sure to check the proceedings of the various national
conferences in the area that interests you.
PhD theses can often be obtained from University Microfilms
Internatinal, 300 North Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48106.
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Subject: [26] Videotapes and Magazines
Videotapes:
The 4th episode of the PBS series "The Machine That Changed the World" is
a good introduction to AI. It is available for $90 from Films for the
Humanities, 1-800-257-5126.
Morgan Kaufmann also has a good set of tapes of AI-related lectures, but
it runs on the expensive side.
AI-related magazines include:
AI EXPERT
Miller Freeman, Inc., 600 Harrison Street, San Francisco, CA 94107.
Subscriptions: 1-800-274-2534 or 303-447-9330
$42/year (12 issues), $6 extra in Canada and Mexico,
$15 extra (surface mail) or $40 (air mail) for overseas.
PC AI
3310 West Bell Road, Suite 119, Phoenix, AZ 85023.
Subscriptions: 602-971-1869, fax 602-971-2321.
$28/year (6 issues); $54 for two years; $78 for three years.
$9 extra in Canada and Mexico, $25 extra (air mail) for all
other countries.
Both magazines are excellent sources of commercial product reviews
and frequently publish "Product Guides/Showcases" that list many of the
commercial products available in a particular area of AI, such as
expert systems, neural nets, natural language processing, and so on.
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Part 4 (FTP Resources):
[4-0] General Information about FTP Resources for AI
[4-1] FTP Repositories
[4-2] FTP and Other Resources
Search for [#] to get to question number # quickly.
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Subject: [4-0] General Information about FTP Resources for AI
Remember, when ftping compressed or compacted files (.Z, .z, .arc, .fit,
etc.) to use binary mode for retrieving the files.
Files that end with a .z suffix were compressed with the patent-free
gzip (no relation to zip). Source for gzip is available from:
prep.ai.mit.edu:pub/gnu/{gzip-1.2.3.shar,gzip-1.2.3.tar,gzip-1.2.3.msdos.exe}
If you do not have ftp access, you can FTP files by E-mail. Send a
message with the word "help" in the body to ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com.
In general, see the Lisp FAQ for Lisp-related software and the Prolog
Resource Guide and the Prolog FAQ for Prolog-related software. If a
Lisp-based or Prolog-based system is listed here, only the ftp site
and directory will be listed; for a more detailed description, see the
Lisp FAQ and the Prolog Resource Guide. For information on obtaining
the Lisp FAQ or the Prolog Resource Guide see [1-0].
When referring to software, "alpha" indicates an internal early
release, "beta" indicates an external early release, and "omega"
indicates an external "finished" release. Generally an "alpha" release
means the creator hasn't yet tested for bugs.
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Subject: [4-1] FTP Repositories
CMU AI Repository:
Construction of the repository is taking longer than expected. (You
don't realize how slow ftp is until you try ftping several hundred
megabytes at a time.) We're about 90% done collecting materials,
and are currently reorganizing the contents. It should become available
within a week or two, the end of August at the latest. An announcement
will be made to all relevant newsgroups and mailing lists when the
repository is ready.
Ada Repository:
The Ada Repository on wsmr-simtel20.army.mil (mailing list
ada-sw@wsmr-simtel20.army.mil) contains a directory of AI programs in
PD2:<ADA.AI>*.*. A somewhat easier to access copy of the archives is
available as wuarchive.wustl.edu:/mirrors/ada/ai.
UCLA Artificial Life Depository:
ftp.cognet.ucla.edu:~ftp/pub/alife [128.97.50.19]
Repository of papers, articles, tech reports, software and other items of
interest to Artificial Life researchers. It includes an archive of
past postings to the alife mailing list, alife@cognet.ucla.edu (send
mail to alife-request@cognet.ucla.edu to be added to the list).
(Other artificial life information is available from santafe.edu
or ftp.santafe.edu [192.12.12.1] in the directory
pub/Artificial-Life-III.)
Consortium for Lexical Research:
clr.nmsu.edu [128.123.1.12]
equivalently, lexical.nmsu.edu [128.123.1.12]
Archive containing a variety of programs and data files related to
natural language processing research, with a particular focus on
lexical research. See the file catalog-short for a quick listing of
the contents of the archive. Long descriptions are in the info/
subdirectory. Publicly available materials are in the pub/
subdirectory (see pub/catalog). Materials for paid-up members of the
Consortium are in the members-only/ subdirectory. Public materials
include the Alvey Natural Language Tools, Sowa's Conceptual Graph
parser implemented in YACC by Maurice Pagnucco, a morphological
parsing lexicon of English, a phonological rule compiler for PC-KIMMO,
C source code for the NIST SGML parser, PC-KIMMO sources, the 1911
Roget Thesaurus, and a variety of word lists (including English,
Dutch, and male/female/last names). Comments and questions may be
directed to lexical@nmsu.edu.
FJ Repository:
The FJ Repository contains freeware from Japan (FJ = "From Japan").
The fj.sources subdirectory is a good place to look for free
software from Japan. Some files in the repository may contain
Kana and Kanji characters. The repository is available by
anonymous ftp from
utsun.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp:fj/fj.sources [133.11.11.11]
The file Index contains an index of all the files in each volume.
Files of particular interest include:
v07/786: Portable Prolog for Common Lisp
v25/2577: General-Purpose Fuzzy Inference Library Ver. 3.0 (1/1)
Fuzzy Logic Repositories:
ntia.its.bldrdoc.gov:pub/fuzzy [132.163.64.201] contains information
concerning fuzzy logic, including bibliographies (bib/), product
descriptions and demo versions (com/), machine readable published
papers (lit/), miscellaneous information, documents and reports (txt/),
and programs, code and compilers (prog/). You may download new items
into the new/ subdirectory. If you deposit anything in new/, please
inform fuzzy@its.bldrdoc.gov. The repository is maintained by
Timothy Butler, tim@its.bldrdoc.gov. The Fuzzy Logic Repository is also
accessible through a mail server, rnalib@its.bldrdoc.gov. For help on
using the server, send mail to the server with the following line in
the body of the message:
@@ help
Other commands available include index, list, find, send, and credits.
Ostfold Regional College in Norway recently started a ftp site
for material related to fuzzy logic, ftp.dhhalden.no:pub/Fuzzy/
[158.36.33.11]. Material to be included in the archive (e.g.,
papers and code) may be placed in the upload/ directory. Now holds the
files from Togai's mail-server, and other files from Timothy Butler's
site ntia.its.bldrdoc.gov. It also includes some demo programs. Send
email to Asgeir Osterhus, <asgeiro@dhhalden.no>.
Togai InfraLogic, Inc. (TIL) also runs a fuzzy logic email server
which contains demo versions of some of their software, fuzzy logic
bibliographies, conference announcements, a short introduction to
fuzzy logic, copies of the company newsletter, archives of
comp.ai.fuzzy, and so on. See the entry in the answer to question
[1-8] for more information on the company. To get started with the
fuzzy logic email server, send a message with NO SUBJECT LINE to
fuzzy-server@til.com, containing just the word "help" in the message
body. The server will reply with a set of instructions. Please
address any comments, questions or requests to either erik@til.com or
tanaka@til.com. Most of the contents of the TIL server is mirrored at
Tim Butler's fuzzy logic ftp repository at ntia.its.bldrdoc.gov and at
Ostfold ftp repository at ftp.dhhalden.no. For more information,
write to Togai InfraLogic, Inc., 5 Vanderbilt, Irvine, CA 92718 or
call 714-975-8522.
The Aptronix FuzzyNet files are available through an email
server. Send email to fuzzynet@aptronix.com with "help"
in the message body to get instructions on how to retrieve files.
"catalog" or "index" will get you a listing of available files.
(You can also connect to the FuzzyNet repository by modem to Aptronix
FuzzyNet 408-428-1883 N/8/1 1200-19,200 baud.) Files on the server
include descriptions of fuzzy logic applications (e.g., washing
machines, camera focusing, air conditioning), introductory materials,
Fide related information, archives of comp.ai.fuzzy, etc. If you'd
like to have a file included in the FuzzyNet server (e.g., moderate
length technical reports), send email to Scott Irwin
<irwin@aptronix.com>.
Genetic Algorithms:
The Genetic Algorithms Repository is located at ftp.aic.nrl.navy.mil. It
includes past copies of the genetic algorithms digest in /pub/galist/, a
copy of Nici Schraudolph's survey of free and commercial GA software in
/pub/galist/information/ga-software-survey.txt (send email to
<schraudo@cs.ucsd.edu> to add to the list), and some software, including
GAC (a simple GA written in C), GAL (a simple GA written in Common Lisp),
GAucsd, GECO (a Common Lisp toolbox for constructing genetic algorithms),
GENESIS, GENOCOP, Paragenesis (a parallel version of GENESIS that runs on
the CM-200), SGA-C (a C implementation/extension of Goldberg's SGA
system).
Genetic Programming:
The Genetic Programming Repository is located at
ftp.cc.utexas.edu:pub/genetic-programming/ [128.83.186.13]. It
contains the archives of the genetic programming mailing list
(including the GP FAQ posting), papers and source code. The source
code includes the GP implementation from Koza's book and some related
systems.
UC/Irvine (UCI) AI/Machine Learning Repository:
ics.uci.edu has a variety of AI-related materials, with a special
focus on machine learning. The directory pub/machine-learning-databases
contains over 80 benchmark data sets for classifier systems (30mb).
Files may also be retrieved by email using the archive server
archive-server@ics.uci.edu. Commands to the server should be given
in the message body. Some commands are:
help
send <archive> <file>
find <archive> <string>
The help command replies with a useful help message.
Site Librarian: Patrick M. Murphy (ml-repository@ics.uci.edu)
Off-Site Assistant: David W. Aha (aha@cs.jhu.edu)
Machine Learning:
Various programs (e.g., ID3) and publications related to machine
learning are available by anonymous ftp from the machine
learning group (under Raymond Mooney) at UT-Austin, at
cs.utexas.edu:pub/mooney.
Subdirectories include
ml-course information and homeworks from a graduate course
in machine learning taught by Dr. Mooney. Homeworks
include "miniatures" of various machine learning
systems written in Common Lisp.
ml-code Common Lisp code corresponding to the assignments
for the course in the ml-course directory.
ml-progs More "research-level" versions of inductive
classification algorithms and software for automated
experiments that generation learning curves that
compare several systems.
papers Publications producted by the machine learning
research group.
Machine Learning Algorithms Implemented in Prolog:
In 1988 the Special Interest Group on Machine Learning of the German
Society for Computer Science (GI e.V.) decided to establish a library
of PROLOG implementations of Machine Learning algorithms. The library
includes - amongst others - PROLOG implementations of Winston's arch,
Becker's AQ-PROLOG, Fisher's COBWEB, Brazdil's generation of
discriminations from derivation trees, Quinlan's ID3, inverse
resolution, and Mitchell's version spaces algorithm. The programs are
currently available via anonymous ftp-server from the GMD:
ftp.gmd.de:/gmd/mlt/ML-Program-Library [129.26.8.90]
Send additional PROLOG implementations of Machine Learning
Algorithms, complaints about them and detected bugs or problems
to Thomas Hoppe, <hoppet@cs.tu-berlin.de>. Send suggestions and
complaints about the ftp library to Werner Emde, Gesellschaft
fuer Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung, Bonn, <emde@gmdzi.gmd.de>.
CMU Simulator Collection:
The CMU Simulator Collection is available by anonymous ftp from
ftp.cs.cmu.edu [128.2.206.173] in the directory
/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/connect/code/
The collection includes Lisp and C implementations of Scott
Fahlman's Cascade Correlation algorithm, Scott Fahlman's
Quickprop variation on the back-propagation algorithm, and Scott
Fahlman's Recurrent Cascade-Correlation simulator. The collection also
includes Aspririn/Migraines and Tesauro. The neural network benchmark
collection is available in
/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/connect/bench/
The data sets include the NETtalk data, a vowel recognition
task, and several others.
The archives of the connectionists mailing list are kept in
/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/connect/connect-archives/
along with a Lisp implementation of a backprop simulator.
Funic Neural FTP Archive Site:
The Finnish University maintains an archive site containing a large
collection of neural network papers and public domain software
gathered from FTP sites in the US. The files are available by
anonymous ftp from funic.funet.fi:/pub/sci/neural [128.214.6.100].
(Also know as ftp.funet.fi, nic.funet.fi.) See the file 01README for
details. A list of mirrored ftp sites is in 04Neural_FTP_Sites. For
further information, contact neural-adm@funic.funet.fi or Marko
Gronroos <magi@funic.funet.fi> (or <magi@utu.fi>).
OSU Neuroprose:
archive.cis.ohio-state.edu:/pub/neuroprose [128.146.8.52]
This directory contains technical reports as a public service to the
connectionist and neural network scientific community which has an
organized mailing list (for info: connectionists-request@cs.cmu.edu)
UKaiserslautern Neural/Fuzzy Repository:
The University of Kaiserslautern has set up a ftp server for reports
and software related to its neural networks and fuzzy logic projects,
including the MOBOT, SPIN, and ALBATROSS projects. Programs currently
available include Joerg Bruske's neural fuzzy decision system
SPIN-NFDS and Herman Keuchel's unsupervised clustering system. Most
of the ready-to-run programs were written for the Apple Macintosh.
Sources for the "kernel" of the programs are available by ftp, written
in Pascal. The user-interface code is also available upon request.
Some of the documentation is in German. The papers and software are
available from ag_vp_file_server.informatik.uni-kl.de in the
directories Neural_Networks/Reports/ and Neural_Networks/Software/.
Some papers and software are also available from ftp.uni-kl.de in the
directory reports_uni-kl/computer_science/mobile_robots/. For further
information, contact Uwe R. Zimmer <uzimmer@informatik.uni-kl.de>.
NL Software Registry:
The Natural Language Software Registry is a catalogue of software
implementing core natural language processing techniques, whether
available on a commercial or noncommercial basis. Some of the topics
listed include speech signal processing, morphological analysis,
parsers, and knowledge representation systems. The catalogue is
available from the German Research Institute for Artificial
Intelligence (DFKI) in Saarbruecken (Germany) by anonymous ftp to
ftp.dfki.uni-sb.de:registry/, email to registry@dfki.uni-sb.de, or
physical mail to NL Software Registry, Deutsches Forschungszentrum
fuer Kuenstliche Intelligenz, Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, D-W-6600
Saarbruecken, Germany, or by telephone to +49 (681) 303-5282.
Miscellaneous AI:
Some miscellaneous AI programs may be found on ftp.uu.net:/pub/ai
Most are mirrors of programs available at other sites.
AI_ATTIC is an anonymous ftp collection of classic AI programs and
other information maintained by the University of Texas at Austin. It
includes Parry, Adventure, Shrdlu, Doctor, Eliza, Animals, Trek, Zork,
Babbler, Jive, and some AI-related programming languages. This
archive is available by anonymous ftp from ftp.cc.utexas.edu
(bongo.cc.utexas.edu, 128.83.186.13) in the directory /pub/AI_ATTIC.
For more information, contact atticmaster@bongo.cc.utexas.edu.
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Subject: [4-2] FTP and Other Resources
In addition to programs available free by anonymous ftp, we've
included some programs which are available by contacting the authors,
and some programs which charge a nominal fee.
Agent Modelling:
ANIMALS is a simulation system written by Toby Tyrrell,
<toby@castle.ed.ac.uk>, for his PhD thesis. The thesis examines the
problem of action selection when dealing with realistic, animal-like
situations: how to choose, at each moment in time, the most
appropriate out of a repertoire of possible actions. It includes a
description is given of a simulated environment which is an extensive
and detailed simulation of the problem of action selection for
animals. This simulated environment is used to investigate the
adequacy of several theories of action selection (from both ethology
and artificial intelligence) such as the drive model, Lorenz's
psycho-hydraulic model and Maes' spreading activation network, and
outlines deficiencies in each mechanism. Finally, it proposes a new
approach to action selection is developed which determines the most
appropriate action in a principled way, and which does not suffer from
the inherent shortcomings found in other methods. The thesis includes
a review and bibliography of existing work on action selection. The
thesis is available by anonymous ftp from ftp.ed.ac.uk:pub/lrtt/
[129.215.146.5] as the files as.1.ps.Z, as.2.ps.Z, ..., and as.7.ps.Z.
The simulation software is also available from the same site, as the
file se.tar.Z. The simulation software was written in Suntools rather
than Xtools. It can be run only from SunView or OpenWindows. The
action selection problem modelled by the simulated environment
comprises 15 different `sub-problems' (getting food, reproducing, not
getting lost, being vigilant for predators, etc), many internal and
external stimuli, and 35 different low-level actions to select
between.
ViewGen (Viewpoint Generator) is a Prolog program that implements a
"Belief Ascription Algorithm" as described in Ballim and Wilks (see the
bibliography section on User Modelling). This can be seen as a form of
agent modelling tool, which allows for the generation of arbitrarily deep
nested belief spaces based on the system's own beliefs, and on beliefs
that are typically held by groups of agents. ViewGen is available by
anonymous ftp from
crl.nmsu.edu:pub/ViewFinder [128.123.1.18] (user anonymous)
ftp.ims.uni-stuttgart.de:pub/ballim [141.58.127.8] (user ftp)
as the file ViewGen.tar.Z. The theory of belief ascription upon which
it is based is described in detail in Ballim and Wilks, and a general
framework for attributing and maintaining nested propositional
attitudes is described in Afzal Ballim's dissertation which is
archived with the Viewgen program (in the files
ViewFinder-{A4/A5/US}.tar.Z,
the variable part indicating the format of the PostScript file).
The inheritance reasoner is in the file vf-hetis.tar.Z.
Implemented in Sicstus prolog, and hence easily convertible to
any Edinburgh-style prolog. Contact Afzal Ballim <afzal@divsun.unige.ch>
for more information.
Analogical Reasoning:
SME -- multivac.ils.nwu.edu:pub/SME
Contact: Brian Falkenhainer <falkenhainer@parc.xerox.com>
Ken Forbus <forbus@ils.nwu.edu>
the Structure-Mapping Engine, as described in Falkenhainer,
Forbus, and Gentner's 1987 AIJ article.
Artificial Life:
Tierra is an artificial life system for studying the evolution of digital
organisms. Tierra runs in Unix and MS-DOS. Source code and documentation
is available by anonymous ftp at tierra.slhs.udel.edu (128.175.41.34) and
life.slhs.udel.edu (128.175.41.33) in the directories almond/, beagle/,
doc/, and tierra/. To be added to either the tierra-announce (official
announcements only) or tierra-digest (moderated discussion plus
announcements) mailing lists, send mail to
tierra-request@life.slhs.udel.edu. Send bug reports to
tierra-bug@life.slhs.udel.edu.
Blackboard Architectures:
GBB (PD Version) -- dime.cs.umass.edu:/gbb
GEST -- Contact: Susan Coryell <scoryell@gtri01.gatech.edu>
Blackboard system. Runs on Symbolics and SUN.
Georgia Tech's Generic Expert System Tool (GEST)
Available to academic institutions for classroom use.
Case-based Reasoning:
CL-Protos -- cs.utexas.edu:/pub/porter
Contact: Dan Dvorak <dvorak@cs.utexas.edu>
Ray Bareiss <bareiss@ils.nwu.edu>
Erik Eilerts <eilerts@cs.utexas.edu>
Bruce W. Porter <porter@cs.utexas.edu>
MICRO-xxx -- cs.umd.edu:/pub/schank/icbr
Contact: waander@cs.umd.edu
The directory pub/schank/icbr contains the complete
code for "Inside Case-Based Reasoning" by
Riesbeck and Schank, 1989. This includes code
for an instructional version of CHEF by Kristian Hammond.
Chess:
The SAN Kit chess programming C source toolkit provides common routines
for move notation I/O, move generation, move execution, etc. Only search
routines and an evaluation function need be added to obtain a working
chess program. It runs on Apple Macintosh (Think C 5.0),
Commodore Amiga (SAS C), MS-DOS, and Unix. It is available by
anonymous ftp from valkyries.andrew.cmu.edu [128.2.232.4] in the
directory pub/chess/misc as the compressed tar file SAN.tar.Z.
Also at this site is the SCP package, a restructured ANSI C port of
the 1987 Stanback Chess Program.
Contact Steven J. Edwards, sje@xylos.ma30.bull.com for more information.
Constraint Programming and Non-determinism:
SCREAMER:
Screamer is an extension of Common Lisp that adds support for
nondeterministic programming. Screamer consists of two levels. The
basic nondeterministic level adds support for backtracking and
undoable side effects. On top of this nondeterministic substrate,
Screamer provides a comprehensive constraint programming language in
which one can formulate and solve mixed systems of numeric and
symbolic constraints. Together, these two levels augment Common Lisp
with practically all of the functionality of both Prolog and
constraint logic programming languages such as CHiP and CLP(R).
Furthermore, Screamer is fully integrated with Common Lisp. Screamer
programs can coexist and interoperate with other extensions to Common
Lisp such as CLOS, CLIM and Iterate.
In several ways Screamer is more efficient than other implementations
of backtracking languages. First, Screamer code is transformed into
Common Lisp which can be compiled by the underlying Common Lisp
system. Many competing implementations of nondeterministic Lisp are
interpreters and thus are far less efficient than Screamer. Second,
the backtracking primitives require fairly low overhead in Screamer.
Finally, this overhead to support backtracking is only paid for those
portions of the program which use the backtracking primitives.
Deterministic portions of user programs pass through the Screamer to
Common Lisp transformation unchanged. Since in practise, only small
portions of typical programs utilize the backtracking primitives,
Screamer can produce more efficient code than compilers for languages
in which backtracking is more pervasive.
Screamer is fairly portable across most Common Lisp implementations.
It currently runs under Genera 8.1.1 and 8.3 on both Symbolics 36xx
and Ivory machines, under Lucid 4.0.2 and 4.1 on Sun SPARC machines,
under MCL 2.0 and 2.0p2 on Apple Macintosh machines, and under Poplog
Common Lisp on Sun SPARC machines. It should run under any
implementation of Common Lisp which is compliant with CLtL2 and with
minor revision could be made to run under implementations compliant
with CLtL1 or dpANS.
Screamer is available by anonymous FTP from ftp.ai.mit.edu as the file
/pub/screamer.tar.Z. Contact Jeffrey Mark Siskind <qobi@ai.mit.edu> for
further information.
Eliza and Similar Programs:
The software from Peter Norvig's book "Paradigms of AI Programming" is
available by anonymous ftp from unix.sri.com:pub/norvig and on disk in
Macintosh or DOS format from the publisher, Morgan Kaufmann. The
software includes Common Lisp implementations of: Eliza and pattern
matchers, Emycin, Othello, Parsers, Scheme interpreters and compilers,
Unification and a prolog interpreter and compiler, Waltz
line-labelling, implementation of GPS, macsyma, and random number
generators. For more information, write to Morgan Kaufmann, Dept. P1,
2929 Campus Drive, Suite 260, San Mateo CA 94403, call 800-745-7323,
or fax 415-578-0672. (Mac ISBN 1-55860-227-5; DOS 3.5" ISBN
1-55860-228-3; or DOS 5.25" ISBN 1-55860-229-1).
The doctor.el is an implementation of Eliza for GNU-Emacs
emacs-lisp. Invoke it with "Meta-X doctor".
Source code for ELIZA in Prolog (implemented by Viren
Patel) is available by ftp from aisun1.ai.uga.edu.
muLISP-87 (a MSDOS Lisp sold by Soft Warehouse) includes
a Lisp implementation of Eliza.
Compute!'s Gazette, June 1984, includes source for a BASIC
implementation of Eliza. You can also find it in 101 more computer
games, edited by David Ahl, published by Creative Computing (alas,
they're defunct, and the book is out of print).
Herbert Schildt "Artificial Intelligence using C", McGraw-Hill, 1987,
ISBN 0-07-881255-0, pp315-338, includes a simple version of DOCTOR.
ucsd.edu:pub/pc-ai contains implementations of Eliza for the IBM PC.
The original Parry (in MLISP for a PDP-10) is available in
labrea.stanford.edu:/pub/parry.tar.Z.
RACTER is *not* public domain. It costs $50 for MS-DOS and Macintosh
versions, the Inrac compiler is $200 (MS-DOS only), and the Inrac
manual alone is $25. Racter is available from John Owens, INRAC
Corp./Nickers International Ltd., 12 Schubert Street, Staten Island,
NY 10305, Tel: 718-448-6283, or Fax: 718-448-6298. Racter was
published in 1984, and written in compiled BASIC. To read some of
RACTER's work, see "The Policeman's Beard is Half Constructed",
Computer Prose and Poetry by Racter, Warner Books, 1984. ISBN
0-446-38051-2 (paperback). Written by William Chamberlain and Thomas
Etter. Some discussion of RACTER appears in A.K. Dewdney's book, "The
Armchair Universe". The Macintosh version runs only on SEs and Pluses
(it comes on a single-sided 400k copy-protected disk, with an old
version of the system).
Expert Systems:
Free ftpable expert system shells are listed in [6-3].
Frame Systems:
FrameWork -- ftp.cs.cmu.edu:user/ai/software/kr/frames/framework/
Theo -- Contact: Tom.Mitchell@cs.cmu.edu
FrameKit -- Contact: Eric.Nyberg@cs.cmu.edu
KR -- Contact: Brad.Myers@cs.cmu.edu
PARKA -- Contact: spector@cs.umd.edu
Frames for the CM
PARMENIDES (Frulekit) -- Contact: Peter.Shell@cs.cmu.edu
FROBS -- cs.utah.edu:/pub/frobs.tar.Z
Contact: Robert Kessler <kessler@cs.utah.edu>
PFC -- linc.cis.upenn.edu:
YAK -- Contact: Enrico Franconi <franconi@irst.it>
Fuzzy Logic:
FLIE -- ural.ethz.ch:/robo/flie
Contact: vestli@ifr.ethz.ch
Fuzzy Logic Inference Engine, Institute of Robotics, ETH.
Game Playing:
METAGAME is a game-playing workbench for developing and playing
metagame programs. It includes a generator for symmetric chess-like
games; definitions of chess, checkers, chinese chess, shogi, lose
chess, lose checkers, french checkers, and tic tac toe translated into
symmetric chess-like games; a legal move generator; and a variety of
player programs, from simple through sophisticated. The METAGAME
Workbench runs in Quintus or Sictus Prolog. Available by anonymous
ftp from ftp.cl.cam.ac.uk [128.232.0.56] in users/bdp/metagame.tar.Z.
For more information, contact Barney Pell <bdp@cl.cam.ac.uk> of the
University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory.
Genetic Algorithms:
SCS (Simple Classifier System) is a C port of the system from
Appendix D of "Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization, and Machine
Learning" by David E. Goldberg. It was ported to C by Erik Mayer
<emayer@uoft02.utoledo.edu>. For more information, contact the author.
SCS-C is another port to C of Goldberg's Simple Classifier System.
It includes some extensions, and runs on Sun 10/30 and Atari ST. SCS-C
is available via anonymous ftp as scs-c-0.98j.tar.Z from
lumpi.informatik.uni-dortmund.de:/pub/LCS/src/ [129.217.36.140]. The
documentation alone is available as scs-c-doc.tar.Z in the directory
/pub/LCS/docs/. For more information, contact Joerg Heitkoetter
<joke@ls11.informatik.uni-dortmunde.de>, c/o Systems Analysis Group,
LSXI, Department of Computer Science, University of Dortmund, D-44221
Dortmund, Germany.
GENITOR is available by anonymous ftp from the Colorado State
University Computer Science Department in
beethoven.cs.colostate.edu:pub/GENITOR.tar [129.82.102.183]
For further information, contact starkwea@cs.colostate.edu or
mathiask@cs.colostate.edu. If these fail to work, contact
whitley@cs.colostate.edu.
Other packages are described in detail in Nici Schraudolph's survey
of free and commercial GA software (see the Genetic Algorithms
Repository in [4-1]). Some of the free ones from Nici's list are
summarized below. Many are available from the GA Repository.
GAucsd Genetic algorithms software
cs.ucsd.edu:/pub/GAucsd/GAucsd14.ps.Z [132.239.51.3]
Nici Schraudolph <nici@cs.ucsd.edu>
To be put on a mailing list of GAucsd users, send
the message "add GAucsd" to listserv@cs.ucsd.edu.
GAbench Genetic algorithms benchmarks and test problems
cs.ucsd.edu:/pub/GAbench/
Thomas Kammeyer (tkammeye@cs.ucsd.edu)
EM Evolution Machine (EM)
ftp-bionik.fb10.tu-berlin.de:pub/software/Evolution-Machine/
[130.149.192.50]
em_tc.exe (EM for Turbo C)
em_tcp.exe (EM for Turbo C++)
em_man.exe (the manual)
Joachim Born <born@max.fb10.tu-berlin.de>
Genie GA-based modeling/forecasting system
Lance Chambers <P_Stampoul@fennel.cc.uwa.oz.au>
GENOCOP GEnetic algorithm for Numerical Optimization for
COnstrained Problems. Optimizes function with any
number of linear constraints (equalities and inequalities)
Genetic-2 Optimization package for the linear transportation problem.
Genetic-2N Optimization package for the nonlinear transportation problem.
All three were developed by Zbigniew Michalewicz and are
described in detail in his book "Genetic Algorithms + Data
Structures = Evolution Programs", Springer Verlag,
August 1992.
unccsun.uncc.edu:coe/evol/ [152.15.10.88]
(also known as ftp.uncc.edu)
Zbigniew Michalewicz <zbyszek@unccvax.uncc.edu>
WOLF Simulator for G/SPLINES algorithm (genetic spline models)
David Rogers <drogers@riacs.edu>
GAC, GAL GA written in C/Lisp. Similar to John Grefenstette's Genesis.
Bill Spears <spears@aic.nrl.navy.mil>
ESCaPaDE Experiments with evolutionary algorithsm.
Frank Hoffmeister <iwan@ls11.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
(Send mail with subject line "help" or "get ESCaPaDE")
mGA1.0 Common Lisp implementation of a messy GA as described in
TCGA report 90004.
SGA-C C-language port and extension of the original Pascal
SGA code presented in Goldberg's book "Genetic
Algorithms in Search, Optimization & Machine
Learning", Addison Wesley, 1989. See TCGA report 91002.
SGA-Cube Goldberg's SGA code modified for nCUBE 2 hypercube
parallel computer.
All three are available by e-mail from
Robert Elliott Smith <rob@comec4.mh.ua.edu>.
BUGS Demonstrates genetic algorithms.
santafe.edu:pub/misc/BUGS/
Joshua Smith <jrs@santafe.edu>
SGPC Simple Genetic Programming in C
sfi.santafe.edu:pub/Users/tackett/
Walter Alden Tackett and Aviram Carmi (gpc@ipld01.hac.com)
GENEsYs lumpi.informatik.uni-dortmund.de:pub/GA/src/ [129.217.36.140]
Use "ftp" as user name, e-mail address as password.
Thomas Baeck <baeck@ls11.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
GAGA Jon Crowcroft <jon@cs.ucl.ac.uk>. cs.ucl.ac.uk:darpa/gaga.shar
Splicer Steve Bayer <bayer@galileo.jsc.nasa.gov>
PARAGENESIS GA-Repository/e-mail Michael van Lent <vanlent@cs.utk.edu>
GENESIS GA-Repository/e-mail John Grefenstette <gref@aic.nrl.navy.mil>
OOGA GA-Repository/e-mail John Grefenstette <gref@aic.nrl.navy.mil>
DGENESIS Erick Cantu <ecantu@babbage.rhon.itam.mx> or
<ecantu@itamvms1.bitnet>.
PGA Parallel Genetic Algorithms testbed
ftp.dai.ed.ac.uk:pub/pga-2.4/pga-2.4.tar.Z (192.41.104.152)
Peter Ross, peter@aisb.ed.ac.uk
ICOT:
Japan's Institute for New Generation Computer Technology (ICOT) has
made their software available to the public free of charge. The
collection includes a variety of prolog-based programs in symbol
processing, knowledge representation, reasoning and problem solving,
natural language processing. All programs are available by anonymous
ftp from ftp.icot.or.jp. Note that most of the programs are written
for the PSI machines, and very few have been ported to Unix-based
emulators. For further information, send email to ifs@icot.or.jp, or
write to ICOT Free Software Desk, Institute for New Generation
Computer Technology, 21st Floor, Mita Kokusai Bldg., 4-28, Mita
1-chome, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108, Japan, fax +81-3-4456-1618.
Knowledge Representation:
KNOWBEL -- ai.toronto.edu:/pub/kr/{knowbel.tar.Z,manual.txt.tar.Z}
Contact: Bryan M. Kramer, <kramer@ai.toronto.edu>
Telos temporal/sorted logic system.
SB-ONE -- Contact: kobsa@inf-wiss.uni-konstanz.de
KL-ONE family
KRIS -- Contact: baader@dfki.uni-kl.de
KL-ONE family (Symbolics only)
BACK -- Contact: back@cs.tu-berlin.de
KL-ONE family
CLASSIC -- Contact: dlm@research.att.com
KL-ONE family
MOTEL -- Contact: hustadt@mpi-sb.mpg.de
Modal KL-ONE (contains KRIS as a kernel).
Implemented in Prolog.
FOL GETFOL -- Contact: fausto@irst.it
Weyrauch's FOL system
SNePS -- Contact: shapiro@cs.buffalo.edu
Semantic Nets
COLAB/RELFUN -- Contact: boley@informatik.uni-kl.de
Logic Programming
COLAB/FORWARD -- Contact: hinkelma@dfki.uni-kl.de
Logic Programming
COLAB/CONTAX -- Contact: meyer@dfki.uni-kl.de
Constraint System for Weighted Constraints over
Hierarchically Structured Finite Domains.
COLAB/TAXON -- Contact: hanschke@dfki.uni-kl.de
Terminological Knowl. Rep. w/Concrete Domains
Machine Learning:
COBWEB/3 -- Contact: cobweb@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov
FOIL -- ftp.cs.su.oz.au:pub/{foil4.sh,foil5.sh} [129.78.8.208]
Each shell archive contains source, a brief manual,
and several sample datasets. FOIL2 should be available
from sumex-aim.stanford.edu:/pub/FOIL.sh.
RWM -- Contact: H. Altay Guvenir <guvenir@trbilun.bitnet>
RWM is a program for learning problem solving strategies,
written in Common Lisp (tested on Suns and NeXT).
IND -- Contact: NASA COSMIC, <service@cossack.cosmic.uga.edu>
Tel: 706-542-3265 (ask for customer support)
Fax: 706-542-4807
IND is a C program for the creation and manipulation of
decision trees from data, integrating the CART,
ID3/C4.5, Buntine's smoothing and option trees, Wallace
and Patrick's MML method, and Oliver and Wallace's MML
decision graphs which extend the tree representation to
graphs. Written by Wray Buntine, <wray@kronos.arc.nasa.gov>.
Mathematics:
SymbMath is a "symbolic calculator that can solve symbolic math
problems" written by Weiguang Huang <w.huang@unsw.edu.au>. It runs on
IBM PCs (8086) under MS-DOS. Shareware versions are available by
anonymous ftp from wsmr-simtel20.army.mil:/calculator/sm22a.zip or
rana.cc.deakin.oz.au:/huang/sm22a.zip or by e-mail from
listserv@vm1.nodak.edu (listserv@ndsuvm1.bitnet).
Medical Reasoning:
TMYCIN -- sumex-aix.stanford.edu:/tmycin
Natural Language Processing:
YACC -- ftp.cs.cmu.edu:user/ai/lang/lisp/lisp/parse/johnson-yacc.lisp
Contact: Mark Johnson <mj@cs.brown.edu>
Lisp YACC/Parser.
BABBLER -- Contact: rsf1@ra.msstate.edu
Markov chains/NLP
PENMAN -- Contact: hovy@isi.edu
Natural Language Generation.
PC-KIMMO -- msdos.archive.umich.edu:/msdos/linguistics/pckim105.zip
An implementation of KIMMO morphological analyzer
for the IBM PC.
FUF -- Contact: elhadad@bengus.bgu.ac.il
cs.columbia.edu: or
ftp: black.bgu.ac.il:/pub/fuf/fuf5.2.tar.Z
cs.columbia.edu:pub/fuf/fuf5.2.tar.Z
Natural language generation system based on
Functional Unification Grammars.
Includes unifier, large grammar of English (surge)
user manual and many examples. Written in Common Lisp.
InterBASE -- Contact: Sergei Kuchin <kuchin@darmstadt.gmd.de>
ftp: files interbas.exe, interba1.exe, interbas.txt on
sics.se:/pub/packet-incoming
ftp.uu.net:/tmp
clr.nmsu.edu:/incoming
debra.dgbt.doc.ca:/pub/incoming
Natural language database front end
RegEx -- csd4.csd.uwm.edu:/pub/regex/
Translates regular expressions to DFAs. Written in C.
Mark Hopkins <markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu>
Tom -- csd4.csd.uwm.edu:/pub/regex/tomita/
C implementation of the Tomita parsing algorithm
Mark Hopkins <markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu>
Common Lisp versions of the miniature natural language understanding
programs from "Inside Computer Understanding" by Schank and Riesbeck,
1981, are available by anonymous ftp from cs.umd.edu in the directory
pub/schank/icu. This includes the SAM and ELI miniatures. It will
eventually include copies of the miniature versions of PAM, POLITICS,
and Tale-Spin. The FOR macro is also available in this directory, as
are a set of functions for manipulating and matching lisp
representations of Conceptual Dependency formulas. Contact Bill
Andersen <waander@cs.umd.edu> for more information.
The Link Parser is a highly efficient English parser written by Danny
Sleator and Davy Temperley. It uses a novel grammatical formalism known
as Link Grammar to represent a robust and diverse collection of
English-language phenomena. The system is available by anonymous ftp from
spade.pc.cs.cmu.edu in the directory /usr/sleator/public/. Read the
README file for more information.
The Xerox part-of-speech tagger is available by anonymous ftp from
parcftp.xerox.com:pub/tagger/tagger-1-0.tar.Z. It is implemented in
Common Lisp and has been tested in Allegro CL 4.1, CMU CL 16e, and
Macintosh CL 2.0p2. For more information, contact the authors, Doug
Cutting <cutting@parc.xerox.com>, and Jan Pedersen
<pedersen@parc.xerox.com>.
The Prolog and DCG programs from Pereira and Shieber's book, "Prolog
and Natural Language Analysis", are available by anonymous ftp from
das.harvard.edu:pub/shieber/pnla/. See the file README for the
conditions under which the material is distributed. If you retrieve
the files, please send an email message to the authors letting them
know how you plan to use them. For further information, write to
Fernando Pereira <pereira@research.att.com> or Stuart Shieber
<shieber@das.harvard.edu>.
Neural Networks:
Aspirin/MIGRAINES is a neural network simulator available free from the
MITRE Corporation. It contains a neural network simulation code generator
which generates high performance C code implementations for
backpropagation networks. It runs on the following platforms: Apollo,
Convex, Cray, DecStation, HP, IBM RS/6000, Intel 486/386 (Unix System V),
NeXT, News, Silicon Graphics Iris, Sun3, Sun4, Mercury i860 (40MHz)
Coprocessors, Meiko Computing Surface w/i860 (40MHz) Nodes, Skystation
i860 (40MHz) Coprocessors, and iWarp Cells. The software is available by
anonymous ftp from the CMU simulator collection on pt.cs.cmu.edu
(128.2.254.155) in the directory /afs/cs/project/connect/code (you must
cd to this directory in one atomic operation) and UCLA's cognitive
science collection on ftp.cognet.ucla.edu (128.97.50.3) in the
directory alexis as the file am6.tar.Z. They include many
examples in the release, include an implementation of NETtalk.
For more information, contact Russell Leighton <leighton@mitre.org>.
MUME (Multi-Module Neural Computing Environment) is a simulation
environment for multi-modules neural computing. It provides an object
oriented facility for the simulation and training of multiple nets
with various architectures and learning algorithms. The object
oriented structure makes simple the addition of new network classes
and new learning algorithms. _ MUME includes a library of network
architectures including feedforward, simple recurrent, and
continuously running recurrent neural networks. Each architecture is
supported by a variety of learning algorithms, including backprop,
weight perturbation, node perturbation, and simulated annealing. MUME
can be used for large scale neural network simulations as it provides
support for learning in multi-net environments. It also provide pre-
and post-processing facilities. MUME can be used to include
non-neural computing modules (decision trees, etc.) in applications. _
MUME is being developed at the Machine Intelligence Group at Sydney
University Electrical Engineering. The software is written in 'C' and
is being used on Sun and DEC workstations. Efforts are underway to
port it to the Fujitsu VP2200 vector processor using the VCC
vectorising C compiler, HP 9000/700, SGI workstations, DEC
Alphas, and PC DOS (with DJGCC). MUME is available to research
institutions on a media/doc/postage cost arrangement after
signing a license agreement. The license agreement is available by
anonymous ftp from 129.78.13.39:/pub/license.ps. An overview of mume
is available from the same machine as /pub/mume-overview.ps.Z. It is
also available free for MSDOS by anonymous ftp from
brutus.ee.su.oz.au:/pub/MUME-0.5-DOS.zip
For further information, write to Marwan Jabri, SEDAL, Sydney
University Electrical Engineering, NSW 2006 Australia,
call +61-2-692-2240, fax +61-2-660-1228, or send email to
Marwan Jabri <marwan@sedal.su.oz.au>. To be added to the mailing
list, send email to mume-request@sedal.su.oz.au.
Adaptive Logic Network (ALN)
The atree adapative logic network simulation package is available by
anonymous ftp from ftp.cs.ualberta.ca [129.128.4.241] in
pub/atree/atree2.tar.Z (Unix). The MS-Windows 3.x version for the IBM PC
is available as either pub/atree/atre27.exe (includes C/C++ sources)
or pub/atree/a27exe.exe (just the executables). The PC version has
a lot more documentation than the Unix version. The Unix version has
been ported to the Macintosh, Amiga, and other machines.
Documentation is in pub/atree/atree2.ps.Z. Also in this directory is a
rather impressive OCR demo using atree. To be added to the mailing
list, send email to alnl-request@cs.ualberta.ca. For more information,
contact William W. Armstrong, <arms@cs.ualberta.ca>.
BPS
Neural network simulator. Other files of interest. Executables are
free; source code for a small fee.
gmuvax2.gmu.edu:nn [no longer there?]
NeuralShell
Availible by anonymous ftp from quanta.eng.ohio-state.edu [128.146.35.1]
in the directory pub/NeuralShell/ as the file NeuralShell.tar.
CONDELA
A neural network definition language.
tut.cis.ohio-state.edu:/pub/condela
ROCHESTER CONNECTIONIST SIMULATOR
Available from cs.rochester.edu:pub/simulator [192.5.53.209].
Includes a backprop package and an X11/SunView interface.
UCLA-SFINX
retina.cs.ucla.edu:pub/sfinx_v2.0.tar.Z [131.179.16.6]
Username sfinxftp, password joshua. Contact sfinx@retina.cs.ucla.edu
for more information.
XERION
A neural network simulator from Drew van Camp at the University
of Toronto. It provides a library of routines for building networks
and graphically displaying them. Written in C and uses the X window
system for graphics. Example simulators include Back Propagation,
Recurrent Back Propagation, Boltzmann Machine, Mean Field Theory, Free
Energy Manipulation, Kohonnen Net, and Hard and Soft Competitive
Learning. Xerion runs on SGI Personal Iris, SGI 4d, Sun3 (SunOS), Sun4
(SunOS). Available by anonymous ftp from ai.toronto.edu:/pub/xerion.
See the file /pub/xerion.README for more information. Also included
is a little program called sciam that contains the basic kernel that
was published in the September 1992 issue of Scientific American.
To be added to the mailing list, send mail to xerion-request@ai.toronto.edu.
Bugs should be reported to xerion-bugs@ai.toronto.edu. Complaints,
suggestions or comments may be sent to xerion@ai.toronto.edu.
SNNS (Stuttgart Neural Network Simulator) is a software simulator for
neural networks on Unix workstations developed at the Institute for
Parallel and Distributed High Performance Systems (IPVR) at the
University of Stuttgart. The SNNS simulator contains a simultor kernel
written in ANSI C and a 2D/3D graphical user interface running under
X11R4/X11R5. It runs under Sun Sparc (SLC, ELC, SS2, GX, GS), DECstation
(2100, 3100, 5000/200), IBM RS 6000, HP 9000, and IBM-PC (386/486). SNNS
includes the following learning procedures: backpropagation (online,
batch, with momentum and flat spot elimin., time delay),
counterpropagation, quickprop, backpercolation 1, and generalized radial
basis functions (RBF), RProp, recurrent ART1, ART2 and ARTMAP, Cascade
Correlation and Recurrent Cascade Correlation, Dynamic LVQ, and Time
delay networks (TDNN). (Elman networks and some other network paradigms
have already been implemented but are scheduled for a later release.)
The SNNS simulator can be obtained via anonymous ftp from
ftp.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de:/pub/SNNS/SNNSv2.1.tar.Z [129.69.211.2].
The PostScript version of the user manual can be obtained as file
SNNSv2.1.Manual.ps.Z. To be added to the mailing list, send a message
to listserv@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de with "subscribe snns <Your Full
Name>" in the message body. Submissions may be sent to
snns@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de. For further information, contact
Andreas Zell, <zell@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>.
NEOCOGNITRON SIMULATOR
The Neocognitron Simulator is written in C and is available by
anonymous ftp from
tamsun.tamu.edu:/pub/neocognitron.Z.tar [128.194.15.32]
unix.hensa.ac.uk:/pub/uunet/pub/ai/neural/neocognitron.tar.Z
[129.12.21.7]
PLANET (aka SunNet)
Simulator that runs under X Windows. Written by Yoshiro Miyata
<miyata@sccs.chukyo-u.ac.jp> of Chukyo University, Japan.
Available by anonymous ftp from
tutserver.tut.ac.jp:pub/misc/PlaNet5.7.tar.Z [133.15.240.3]
boulder.colorado.edu:pub/generic-sources/PlaNet5.7.tar.Z [128.138.240.1]
Includes documentation.
LVQ_PAK and SOM_PAK
LVQ_PAK (Learning Vector Quantization) and SOM_PAK (Self-Organizing Maps)
were written by the LVQ/SOM Programming Team of the Helsinki
University of Technology, Laboratory of Computer and Information
Science, Rakentajanaukio 2 C, SF-02150 Espoo, FINLAND. The PAKs
run in Unix and MS-DOS systems. Available by anonymous ftp from
cochlea.hut.fi [130.233.168.48] in the directories /pub/lvq_pak/
and /pub/som_pak/.
MACTIVATION
bruno.cs.colorado.edu:/pub/cs/misc/ [128.138.243.151]
as the file Mactivation-3.3.sea.hqx.
DartNet
A Macintosh-based Neural Network Simulator with a nice graphical
interface. Available by anonymous ftp from
dartvax.dartmouth.edu:/pub/mac/dartnet.sit.hqx [129.170.16.4]
or by email from bharucha@dartmouth.edu. New network architectures
and learning algorithms can be added to the system by writing small
XCMD-like CODE resources called nDEF's ("Network Definitions"). For
more information, send email to Sean P. Nolan,
<sean@coos.dartmouth.edu>.
NevProp is a C implementation of general purpose backpropagation
software, based on Quickprop 1.0 by Scott Fahlman, as translated from
Common Lisp into C by Terry Regier. It runs on Unix, Macintosh, and
DOS. The quickprop algorithm itself has not changed substantially, but
it now includes options to force gradient descent (per-epoch or
per-pattern), generalization & stopped training, c index, and interface
enhancements. It is available by anonymous ftp from unssun.scs.unr.edu
[134.197.10.128] pub/goodman/nevpropdir/ as the file npxxx.shar
(replace xxx with the version number) or from the CMU Simulator Collection.
For further information, contact Phil Goodman <goodman@unr.edu>.
TCS (Tasmanian Connectionist Simulator) is a neural network
simulation package written in Borland C++ for Windows available by
anonymous ftp from
ftp.psychol.utas.edu.au:/pub/tcs [131.217.35.98]
For further information, write to Zoltan Schreter Dept. Psychology
University of Tasmania Hobart, Tasmania AUSTRALIA,
<zoltan@psychnet.psychol.utas.edu.au>.
Probabilistic Reasoning:
BELIEF -- ftp.stat.washington.edu (128.95.17.34)
Contact: Russell Almond <almond@stat.washington.edu>
<almond@statsci.com>
IDEAL -- Contact: srinivas@rpal.rockwell.com
Bayesian networks
Planning:
NONLIN -- cs.umd.edu:/pub/nonlin (128.8.128.8)
Contact: nonlin-users-request@cs.umd.edu
nonlin-bugs@cs.umd.edu
ABTWEAK -- jupiter.drev.dnd.ca:pub/steve/Abtweak
Contact: Steven Woods <woods@drev.dnd.ca>
RHETORICAL -- cs.rochester.edu:/pub/knowledge-tools
Contact: Brad Miller <miller@cs.rochester.edu>
SNLP -- cs.washington.edu:/pub/snlp.tar.Z
Contact: weld@cs.washington.edu
Nonlinear planner.
IDM -- sauquoit.gsfc.nasa.gov (128.183.101.29)
Contact: idm-users@chelmsford.gsfc.nasa.gov
STRIPS-like planning.
PRODIGY -- Contact: prodigy@cs.cmu.edu
Integrated Planning and Learning System
SOAR -- ftp.cs.cmu.edu:
/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/soar/public/Soar5/ -- Lisp Version
/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/soar/public/Soar6/ -- C Version
Contact: soar-request@cs.cmu.edu
Integrated Agent Architecture.
Supports learning through chunking.
MATS -- Contact: kautz@research.att.com
Temporal constraints
Qualitative Reasoning/Qualitative Physics:
QSIM -- cs.utexas.edu:/pub/qsim
Contact: Ben Kuipers <kuipers@cs.utexas.edu>
QPE -- multivac.ils.nwu.edu:pub/QPE
contact: Prof. Kenneth D. Forbus <forbus@ils.nwu.edu>
Qualitative Process Engine (an implementation of QP theory)
Robotics (Planning Testbeds and Simulators):
TILEWORLD -- cs.washington.edu:new-tileworld.tar.Z
Planning testbed
The ARS MAGNA abstract robot simular provides an abstract world in
which a planner controls a mobile robot. This abstract world is more
realistic than typical blocks worlds, in which micro-world simplifying
assumptions do not hold. Experiments may be controlled by varying
global world parameters, such as perceptual noise, as well as building
specific environments in order to exercise particular planner
features. The world is also extensible to allow new experimental
designs that were not thought of originally. The simulator also
includes a simple graphical user-interface which uses the CLX
interface to the X window system. ARS MAGNA can be obtained by
anonymous ftp from ftp.cs.yale.edu, as ars-magna.tar.Z in the pub/nisp
directory. Installation instructions are in the file
Installation.readme. The simulator is written in Nisp, a macro-package
for Common Lisp. Nisp can be retrieved in the same way as the
simulator. Version 1.0 of the ARS MAGNA simulator is documented in
Yale Technical Report YALEU/DCS/RR #928, "ARS MAGNA: The Abstract
Robot Simulator". This report is available in the distribution as a
PostScript file. Comments should be directed to Sean Philip
Engelson <engelson@cs.yale.edu>.
Simderella is a robot simulator consisting of three programs: CONNEL
(the controller), SIMMEL (the robot simulator), and BEMMEL (the
X-windows oriented graphics back-end). SIMMEL performs a few matrix
multiplications, based on the Denavit Hartenberg method, calculates
velocities with the Newton-Euler scheme, and communicates with the
other two programs. BEMMEL only displays the robot. CONNEL is the
controller, which must be designed by the user (in the distributed
version, CONNEL is a simple inverse kinematics routine.) The programs
use Unix sockets for communication, so you must have sockets, but you
can run the programs on different machines. The software is available
by anonymous ftp from
galba.mbfys.kun.nl:pub/neuro-software/pd/ [131.174.82.73]
as the file simderella.1.0.tar.Z The software has been compiled using
gcc on SunOS running under X11R4/5 on Sun3, Sun4, Sun Sparc 1, 2, and
10, and Silicon Graphics architectures. For more information,
send email to Patrick van der Smagt, <smagt@fwi.uva.nl>.
The Michigan Intelligent Coordination Experiment (MICE) testbed is a
tool for experimenting with coordination between intelligent systems
under a variety of conditions. MICE simulates a two-dimensional
grid-world in which agents may move, communicate, and affect their
environment. MICE is essentially a discrete-event simulator that
helps control the domain and a graphical representation, but provides
relatively few constraints on the form of the domain and the agents'
abilities. Users may specify the time required by various activities,
the constraints on an agents' sensors, the configuration of the domain
and its properties, etc. MICE runs under XWindows on Un*x boxes, on
Macs, and on TI Explorers, with relatively consistent graphical
displays. Source code, documentation, and examples are available via
anonymous ftp to ftp.eecs.umich.edu:Mice/Mice.tar.Z. MICE was
produced by the University of Michigan's Distributed Intelligent Agent
Group (UM DIAG). For further information, write to
umdiagmice@caen.engin.umich.edu.
Simulated Annealing:
VFSR (Very Fast Simulated Reannealing) is a powerful global optimization
C-code algorithm especially useful for nonlinear and/or stochastic
systems. Most current copies usually can be obtained by anonymous ftp
from ftp.uu.net:tmp/vfsr.Z.
Older versions can be found in the Netlib archive (research.att.com:opt/,
logging in as netlib), the Statlib archive (lib.stat.cmu.edu, logging in
as statlib), the UMIACS archive (ftp.umiacs.umd.edu:pub/ingber), and the
UTSA archive (ringer.cs.utsa.edu:/pub/rosen). The authors have
(p)reprints related to VFSR in their archives: Lester Ingber has a review
article, sarev.ps.Z, in the UMIACS archive (and on uunet in /tmp), and
Bruce Rosen has a comparison study, "Function Optimization based on
Advanced Simulated Annealing", which is available in the UTSA archive as
the file rosen.advsim.ps.Z. Copies of the code are also available
by email from the author, Lester Ingber <ingber@alumni.caltech.edu>.
Adaptive Simulated Annealing (ASA) is available by anonymous ftp from
ftp.caltech.edu:pub/ingber [131.215.48.151].
Speech:
RECNET is a complete speech recognition system for the DARPA TIMIT and
Resource Management tasks. It uses recurrent networks to estimate phone
probabilities and Markov models to find the most probable sequence of
phones or words. The system is a snapshot of evolving research code.
There is no documentation other than published research papers. It is
configured for the two specific databases and is unlikely to be of use as
a complete system for other tasks. It is available by anonymous ftp from
svr-ftp.eng.cam.ac.uk:misc/recnet-1.3.tar.Z. Related publications can be
found in svr-ftp.eng.cam.ac.uk:reports/ (see the ABSTRACT file first).
You will need the relevant CDROMs, 150MByte of free space for TIMIT and
300MByte for RM. If you use the code, the author would appreciate an
email message so that he can keep you informed of new releases. Write to
Tony Robinson, <ajr@eng.cam.ac.uk>, for more information.
CELP 3.2a is available from super.org:/pub/celp_3.2a.tar.Z
[192.31.192.1] with copies available on
svr-ftp.eng.cam.ac.uk:comp.speech/sources/ The code (C, FORTRAN,
diskio) all has been built and tested on a Sun4 under SunOS4.1.3. If
you want to run it somewhere else, then you may have to do a bit of
work. (A Solaris 2.x-compatible release is planned soon.) Written by
Joe Campbell <jpcampb@afterlife.ncsc.mil> of the Department of
Defense. Distribution facilitated by Craig F. Reese
<cfreese@super.org>, IDA/Supercomputing Research Center.
Theorem Proving/Automated Reasoning:
Otter -- info.mcs.anl.gov:pub/Otter/Otter-2.2/otter22.tar.Z
anagram.mcs.anl.gov:pub/Otter/
Contact: otter@mcs.anl.gov
Resolution-based theorem prover.
ATP Problems -- anagram.mcs.anl.gov:pub/ATP_Problems/*
Collection of ATP problems from Otter, CADE, and JAR.
The problems include algebra, analysis, circuits,
geometry, logic problems, Pelletier's problem set,
program verification, puzzles, set theory, and topology.
SETHEO -- flop.informatik.tu-muenchen.de:pub/fki/ [131.159.8.35]
Get the files setheo.info and setheo.tar.Z.
SETHEO (SEquential THEOrem prover) is an automated
theorem prover for formulae of predicate logic.
SETHEO is based on the calculus of ``connection
tableaux''. SETHEO runs on Sun SPARCs only.
Contact: setheo@informatik.tu-muenchen.de
Isabelle -- ftp.cl.cam.ac.uk:ml/ [128.232.0.56]
ftp.informatik.tu-muenchen.de:lehrstuhl/nipkow/
[131.159.0.110]
Relevant files include:
intro.dvi.Z "Introduction to Isabelle"
ref.dvi.Z "The Isabelle Reference Manual"
logics.dvi.Z "Isabelle's Object-Logics"
92.tar.Z Isabelle-92 distribution directory
Written in Standard ML, and comes with 8 different
logics, including LCF, some modal logics, first-order
logic, Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory, and higher-order logic.
Contact: Larry.Paulson@cl.cam.ac.uk
Tobias.Nipkow@informatik.tu-muenchen.de
MVL -- t.stanford.edu:/mvl/mvl.tar.Z
Contact: ginsberg@t.stanford.edu
Multi-valued logics
Boyer-Moore -- ftp.cli.com:pub/nqthm/nqthm.tar.Z
rascal.ics.utexas.edu:/pub/nqthm 128.83.138.20
Contact: kaufmann@cli.com
DTP -- meta.stanford.edu:/pub/dtp/ [36.8.0.54]
Contact: Don Geddis <geddis@cs.stanford.edu>
Domain-independent search control of inference. Runs in
Allegro and Lucid Common Lisp.
RRL -- herky.cs.uiowa.edu:public/rrl [128.255.28.100]
Rewrite Rule Laboratory
FRAPPS (Framework for Resolution-based Automated Proof Procedures) is
a portable resolution theorem-prover written in Common Lisp. It is
available via anonymous ftp from a.cs.uiuc.edu:/pub/frapps [128.174.252.1].
If you take a copy of FRAPPS, please send a short note to Prof.
Alan M. Frisch <frisch@cs.uiuc.edu>.
XPNet (X Proof Net) is a graphical interface to proof nets with an
efficient proof checker. It is available by anonymous ftp to
ftp.cis.upenn.edu:/pub/xpnet.tar.Z [130.91.6.8]. For further
information, write to Jawahar Chirimar <chirimar@saul.cis.upenn.edu>,
Carl A. Gunter <gunter@saul.cis.upenn.edu>, or Myra VanInwegen
<myra@saul.cis.upenn.edu>.
Gazer is a sequent calculus based system for first order logic with a
novel inference rule, gazing, that enables the system to determine
which of a possibly large number of definitions and lemmas should be
used at any point in a proof. Available from the authors, Dave
Barker-Plummer <plummer@cs.swarthmore.edu> and Alex Rothenberg
<alex@cs.swarthmore.edu>.
Truth Maintenance:
The truth maintenance system and problem solver implementations
described in the book "Building Problem Solvers" by Ken Forbus and
Johan de Kleer are available by anonymous ftp from
parcftp.xerox.com:/ftp/pub/bps/. For more information send mail to
Johan de Kleer <deKleer@parc.xerox.com>.
Miscellaneous:
University of Toronto:
ftp -- ftp.cs.toronto.edu:/pub/ailist
Archives of ailist mailing list, defunct as of January 19, 1990
PAIL (Portable AI Lab)
ftp -- pobox.cscs.ch:/pub/ai/pail-2.2/ [148.187.10.13]
contact: pail-info@idsia.ch
authors: Mike Rosner <mike@idsia.ch>
Dean Allemang <allemang@lia.di.epfl.ch>
CD-ROMS:
The Artificial Intelligence CD-ROM (Volume One, 1992) is available
from Network Cybernetics Corporation for $129.00 per copy (plus $5
shipping domestic, $10 shipping international). The AI CD-ROM is an
ISO-9660 format disk usable on any computer system, and contain a
variety of public domain, shareware, and other software of special
interest to the AI community. The disk contains source code,
executable programs, demonstration versions of commercial programs,
tutorials and other files for a variety of operating systems. Among
the supported operating systems are MS-DOS, OS/2, Mac, Amiga, and
Unix. Among the items included are CLIPS v5.1 and NETS, courtesy of
COSMIC, the collected source code from AIExpert magazine from the
premier issue in June of 1986 to the present, and complete
transcriptions of the first annual Loebner Prize competition, which
took place at the Boston Computer Museum. It also includes examples
many different kinds of neural networks, genetic algorithms,
artificial life simulators, natural language software, public domain
and shareware compilers for a wide range of languages such as Lisp,
Xlisp, Scheme, XScheme, Smalltalk, Prolog, ICON, SNOBOL, and many
others. Complete collections of the Neural Digest, Genetic Algorithms
Digest, and Vision List Digest are included. Network Cybernetics
Corporation intends to release annual revisions to the AI CD-ROM to
keep it up to date with current developments in the field. For more
information, write to Network Cybernetics Corporation, 4201 Wingren
Road, Suite 202, Irving, Texas 75062-2763, call 214-650-2002, fax
214-650-1929, or send email to ai-cdrom@ncc.com or
steve.rainwater@ncc.com (Steve Rainwater).
PTF is a semi-annual CD-ROM collection of UNIX-related freeware source
code and documentation. PTF in no way modifies the legal restrictions
on any package it includes. Each issue consists of two ISO-9660
CD-ROMs, bound into a 50+ page booklet. PTF is particularly useful for
programmers who do not have FTP access, but may also be useful as a
way of saving disk space and avoiding annoying FTP searches and
retrievals. The current issue (2-1; January, 1993) includes, among
other things, ICOT collection and several varieties of Lisp and other
AI languages. It sells (list) for $60 US plus applicable sales tax and
shipping and handling charges. SUG and USENIX members may purchase the
issue for $50. Payable through Visa, Mastercard, postal money orders
in US funds, and checks in US funds drawn on a US bank. For more
information write to Prime Time Freeware, 370 Altair Way, Suite 150,
Sunnyvale, CA 94086 call 408-433-9662, fax 408-432-6149, or send email
to ptf@cfcl.com.
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Part 5 (FTP Resources):
[5-1] AI Bibliographies available by FTP
[5-2] AI Technical Reports available by FTP
[5-3] Where can I get a machine readable dictionary, thesaurus, and
other text corpora?
[5-4] List of Smalltalk implementations.
Search for [#] to get to question number # quickly.
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Subject: [5-1] AI Bibliographies available by FTP
The Computer Science Department at the University of Saarbruecken, Germany,
maintains a large bibliographic database of articles pertaining to the
field of Artificial Intelligence. Currently the database contains more
than 25,000 references, which can be retrieved by electronic mail from
the LIDO mailserver at lido@cs.uni-sb.de. Send a mail message with
subject line "lidosearch help info" to get instructions on using the
mail server. A variety of queries based on author names, title and
year of publication are possible. The references can be provided in
BibTeX or Refer formats. The entire bibliographic database can be
obtained for a fee by ftp or on tape. Questions may be directed to
bib-1@cs.uni-sb.de.
A variety of AI-related bibliographies are located on nexus.yorku.ca
in the directory /pub/bibliographies.
For information on a fairly complete bibliography of computational
linguistics and natural language processing work from the 1980s, send
mail to clbib@csli.stanford.edu with the subject HELP.
Stanford University (SUMEX-AIM) has a large BibTeX bibliography of
Artificial Intelligence papers and technical reports. Available by
anonymous ftp from aim.stanford.edu:/pub/ai{1,2,3}.bib
A BibTeX database of references addressing neuro-fuzzy issues can be
obtained by anonymous ftp from ftp.tu-bs.de (134.169.34.15) in the
directory local/papers as the (ascii) file fuzzy-nn.bib.
Robert Dale's Natural Language Generation (NLG) bibliography is
available by anonymous ftp from scott.cogsci.ed.uk [129.215.144.3] in
the directory pub/nlg. Note that it is formatted for A4 paper. For
further information, write to Robert Dale, University of Edinburgh,
Centre for Cognitive Science, 2 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9LW
Scotland, or <R.Dale@edinburgh.ac.uk>.
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Subject: [5-2] Technical Reports available by FTP
This section lists the anonymous ftp sites for technical reports from
several universities and other organizations. Some of the sites
provide only an online catalog of technical reports, while the rest
make the actual reports available online. The email address listed is
that of the appropriate person to contact with questions about
ordering technical reports.
When ftping compressed .Z files, remember to set the transfer type to
binary first, using the command
ftp> binary
Other general locations for technical reports from several
universities include:
wuarchive.wustl.edu:/doc/techreports/ [128.252.135.4]
cs-archive.uwaterloo.edu:cs-archive (see Index for an index)
AKA watdragon.uwaterloo.ca [129.97.140.24]
The uwaterloo archive includes tech reports from the Logic Programming
and Artificial Intelligence Group (LPAIG) of the University of Waterloo.
There is also a WAIS server containing tech report abstracts that can be
searched. To use, create the file ~/wais-sources/cs-techreport-abstracts.src
containing
(:source
:version 3
:ip-address "130.194.74.201"
:ip-name "daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au"
:tcp-port 210
:database-name "cs-techreport-abstracts"
:cost 0.00
:cost-unit :free
:maintainer "wais@daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au")
and invoke your local wais client. To add to it, email abstracts of
your papers to wais@rdt.monash.edu.au in the following format:
%TI Title
%AU Author (use multiple %AU lines for multiple authors)
%PU Published In (citation information)
%AV Availability (e.g., ftp reports.adm.cs.cmu.edu:1992/CMU-CS-92-101.ps)
%OR Organization (see cs-techreport-archives.src for institution codes)
%LT Local title (e.g., tech report number)
%DA Date (and, if you want, %MN Month, %YR Year)
%AB Abstract
If your papers are not available by FTP, you can use a %AV line such as:
%AV mail harry.bovik@cs.cmu.edu
Further instructions are available from
daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au:/pub/techreports/reports/README
[Based on a post by Ashwin Ram.]
An archive of linguistics papers and preprints is available from
linguistics.archive.umich.edu:linguistics/papers/. Contact John Lawler
(jlawler@umich.edu) or linguistics-archivist@umich.edu for more
information.
The newsgroup comp.doc.techreports is devoted to distributing lists of
tech reports and their abstracts.
MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory:
ftp -- ftp.ai.mit.edu:ai-pub/{bibliography,general-info,publications}
email -- publications@ai.mit.edu
browse -- telnet reading-room.lcs.mit.edu
A full catalog of MIT AI Lab technical reports (and a listing of recent
updates) may be obtained from the above location, by writing to
Publications, Room NE43-818, M.I.T. Artificial Intelligence Laboratory,
545 Technology Square, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA, or by calling
1-617-253-6773. The catalog lists the technical reports ("AI Memos")
with a short abstract and their current prices. There is also a charge
for shipping. Some recent tech reports are available in the
publications/ subdirectory; older technical reports are NOT
available by ftp.
Sandiway Fong's 1991 PhD thesis, ``The Computational Properties of
Principle-Based Grammatical Theories,'' may be found in the
directory pub/sandiway/.
CMU School of Computer Science:
ftp -- reports.adm.cs.cmu.edu
email -- Technical.Reports@cs.cmu.edu
CMU Software Engineering Institute:
ftp -- ftp.sei.cmu.edu:/pub/documents
email -- bjz@sei.cmu.edu
Yale:
ftp -- dept.cs.yale.edu:/pub/TR/
University of Washington CSE Tech Reports:
ftp -- june.cs.washington.edu:/tr
email -- tr-request@cs.washington.edu
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AT&T Bell Laboratories:
ftp -- research.att.com:/netlib/research/cstr
bib.Z contains short bibliography, including all the technical
reports contained in this directory.
ftp -- research.att.com:/dist/ai
Argonne National Laboratory:
ftp -- anagram.mcs.anl.gov:pub/tech_reports
email -- wright@mcs.anl.gov
Contains MCS Division preprints and technical memoranda,
available as either .dvi or .ps files. For descriptions of the
contents, see the subdirectory pub/tech_reports/abstracts; for
the files themselves see the subdirectory pub/tech_reports/reports.
Boston University:
ftp -- cs.bu.edu:techreports/
email -- techreports@cs.bu.edu
Brown University:
ftp -- wilma.cs.brown.edu:techreports/
email -- techreports@cs.brown.edu
Cambridge University: Speech, Vision & Robotics Group
ftp -- svr-ftp.eng.cam.ac.uk:reports/
Columbia University:
ftp -- cs.columbia.edu:/pub/reports
email -- tech-reports@cs.columbia.edu
DEC Cambridge Research Lab:
ftp -- crl.dec.com:/pub/DEC/CRL/{abstracts,tech-reports}
DEC Paris Research Lab:
email -- doc-server@prl.dec.com
Put commands in Subject: line of the message.
To get a list of articles, use
send index articles
To get a list of tech reports, use
send index reports
DEC WRL:
email -- wrl-techreports@decwrl.dec.com
To get a helpfile, send a message with
help
in the subject line.
DFKI:
ftp -- duck.dfki.uni-sb.de:/pub/papers
email -- Martin Henz (henz@dfki.uni-sb.de)
Duke University:
ftp -- cs.duke.edu:/dist/{papers,theses}
email -- techreport@cs.duke.edu
Edinburgh:
A list of available reports can be sent via email. Send requests
for information about reports from the Center for Cognitive Science
to cogsci%ed.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk, and from the Human Communication
Research Center to HCRC%ed.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk.
Electrotechnical Laboratory, Japan:
Reports from the Cooperative Architecture project (half AI, half
software engineering).
ftp -- etlport.etl.go.jp:pub/kyocho/Papers [192.31.197.99]
See file Index.English.
email -- Hideyuki Nakashima <nakashim@etl.go.jp>.
Georgia Tech College of Computing, AI Group:
ftp -- ftp.cc.gatech.edu:pub/ai (130.207.3.245)
email -- Professor Ashwin Ram <ashwin@cc.gatech.edu>
Illinois:
email -- Erna Amerman <erna@uiuc.edu>
Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory (IlliGAL):
email -- Eric Thompson <library@gal1.ge.uiuc.edu>
phone -- 217-333-2346 (9AM to 5PM CT, M-F)
mail -- Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory
Department of General Engineering
117 Transportation Building
104 South Mathews Avenue
Urbana, IL 61801-2996
ftp -- coming soon.
Indiana:
ftp -- cogsci.indiana.edu:pub [129.79.238.12]
ftp -- cs.indiana.edu:pub/techreports [129.79.254.191]
INRIA, France:
ftp -- ftp.inria.fr:INRIA/publication/
Institute for Learning Sciences at Northwestern University:
ftp -- aristotle.ils.nwu.edu:/pub/papers/
New York University (NYU):
ftp -- cs.nyu.edu:/pub/tech-reports
OGI:
ftp -- cse.ogi.edu:/pub/tech-reports
email -- csedept@cse.ogi.edu
Ohio State University, Laboratory for AI Research
ftp -- nervous.cis.ohio-state.edu:/pub/papers
email -- lair-librarian@cis.ohio-state.edu
OSU Neuroprose:
ftp -- archive.cis.ohio-state.edu:/pub/neuroprose (128.146.8.52)
This directory contains technical reports as a public service to the
connectionist and neural network scientific community which has an
organized mailing list (for info: connectionists-request@cs.cmu.edu)
Includes several bibliographies.
Stanford:
ftp -- elib.stanford.edu:/cs
Very spotty collection.
SUNY Buffalo:
ftp -- ftp.cs.buffalo.edu:/pub/tech-reports/
SUNY at Stony Brook:
ftp -- sbcs.sunysb.edu:/pub/TechReports
email -- rick@cs.sunysb.edu or stark@cs.sunysb.edu
The /pub/sunysb directory contains the SB-Prolog implementation
of the Prolog language. Contact warren@sbcs.sunysb.edu for more
information.
TCGA (The Clearinghouse for Genetic Algorithms):
email -- Robert Elliott Smith <rob@comec4.mh.ua.edu>
Department of Engineering of Mechanics
Room 210 Hardaway Hall
The University of Alabama
PO Box 870278
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487
205-348-1618, fax 205-348-6419
Thinking Machines:
ftp -- ftp.think.com:think/techreport.list
This file contains a list of Thinking Machines technical reports.
Orders may be placed by email (limit 5) to t-rex@think.com, or by US
Mail to Thinking Machines Corporation, Attn: Technical reports, 245
First Street, Cambridge, MA 01241. In addition, the directories
cm/starlisp and cm/starlogo contain code for the *Lisp and *Logo
simulators.
Tulane University:
ftp -- rex.cs.tulane.edu:pub/tech/ [129.81.132.1]
University of Arizona:
ftp -- cs.arizona.edu:reports/
email -- tr_libr@cs.arizona.edu
The directory /japan/kahaner.reports contains reports on AI in
Japan, among other things, written by Dr. David Kahaner, a
numerical analyst on sabbatical to the Office of Naval
Research-Asia (ONR Asia) in Tokyo from NIST. The reports are not
written in any sort of official capacity, but are quite interesting.
University of California/Santa Cruz:
ftp -- ftp.cse.ucsc.edu:/pub/{bib,tr}
email -- jean@cs.ucsc.edu
University of Colorado:
ftp -- ftp.cs.colorado.edu:/pub/cs/techreports
University of Florida:
ftp -- bikini.cis.ufl.edu:/cis/tech-reports
University of Illinois at Urbana:
ftp -- a.cs.uiuc.edu:/pub/dcs
email -- erna@a.cs.uiuc.edu
University of Indiana, Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition:
ftp -- cogsci.indiana.edu:pub/
email -- helga@cogsci.indiana.edu
University of Kaiserslautern, Germany:
ftp -- ftp.uni-kl.de:reports_uni-kl/computer_science/
University of Kentucky:
ftp -- ftp.ms.uky.edu:ftp/pub/tech-reports/UK/cs/
University of Massachusetts at Amherst:
email -- techrept@cs.umass.edu
University of Michigan:
ftp -- ftp.eecs.umich.edu:/techreports
University of North Carolina:
ftp -- ftp.cs.unc.edu:/pub/technical-reports/
University of Pennsylvania:
ftp -- ftp.cis.upenn.edu:/pub/papers/
email -- publications@upenn.edu
USC/Information Sciences Institute:
email -- Sheila Coyazo <scoyazo@isi.edu> is the contact.
University of Toronto:
ftp -- ftp.cs.toronto.edu:/pub/reports
email -- tech-reports@cs.toronto.edu
University of Virginia:
ftp -- uvacs.cs.virginia.edu:/pub/techreports/cs
University of Wisconsin:
ftp -- ftp.cs.wisc.edu:/tech-reports
email -- tech-reports-archive@cs.wisc.edu
Some AI authors have set up repositories of their own papers:
Matthew Ginsberg: t.stanford.edu:/u/ftp/papers
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Subject: [5-3] Where can I get a machine readable dictionary, thesaurus, and
other text corpora?
Free:
Roget's 1911 Thesaurus is available by anonymous FTP from the
Consortium for Lexical Research (clr.nmsu.edu, [128.123.1.12]).
The pathname is /pub/lexica/thesauri/roget-1911.
It is also available from
src.doc.ic.ac.uk:/literary/collections/project_gutenberg/roget11.txt.Z
An old Webster's dictionary is in /text/dict/{DICT.Z,DICT.INDEX.Z}.
Project Gutenberg also has Roget's 1911 Thesaurus. The Project
Gutenberg archive is at mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu:/pub/etext/. The
Project Gutenberg archive collects public domain electronic books. For more
information, write to Michael S. Hart, Professor of Electronic Text,
Executive Director of Project Gutenberg Etext, Illinois Benedictine
College, Lisle, IL 60532 or send email to hart@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu.
For people without FTP, Austin Code Works sells floppy disks
containing Roget's 1911 Thesaurus for $40.00. This money helps support
the production of other useful texts, such as the 1913 Webster's dictionary.
The Online Book Initiative maintains a text repository on
world.std.com (a public access UNIX system, 617-739-WRLD). See the
README file on obi.std.com:/obi/. For more information, send email to
obi@world.std.com, write to Software Tool & Die, 1330 Beacon Street,
Brookline, MA 02146, or call 617-739-0202.
The CHILDES project at Carnegie Mellon University has a lot of data of
children speaking to adults, as well as the adult written and adult
spoken corpora from the CORNELL project. Contact Brian MacWhinney
<brian@andrew.cmu.edu> for more information.
The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) has a Data
Collection Initiative. For more information, contact Donald Walker at
Bellcore, walker@flash.bellcore.com.
Two lists of common female first names (4967 names) and male first
names (2924 names) are available for anonymous ftp from ftp.cs.cmu.edu
in the directory user/ai/software/nlp/corpora/names/. Read
the file README first. [Note that you must cd to this directory in one
atomic operation, as superior directories are protected during an
anonymous ftp.] Send mail to mkant@cs.cmu.edu for more information.
A list of 110,000 English words (one per line, in ASCII) is
available in the PD1:<MSDOS.LINGUISTICS> directory on SIMTEL20 as the
files WORDS1.ZIP, WORDS2.ZIP, WORDS3.ZIP, and WORDS4.ZIP. Although the
list is in MS-DOS files, it can easily be used on other machines (but
first you'll have to unzip the files on a DOS machine). The list
includes inflected forms of the words, such as plural nouns and the
-s, -ed, and -ing forms of verbs; thus the number of lexical stems in
the list is considerably smaller than the total number of word forms.
These files are available via FTP from WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL
[192.88.110.20]. SIMTEL20 files are mirrored on wuarchive.wustl.edu.
The Collins English Dictionary encoded as a Prolog fact base is
available from the Oxford Text Archive by anonymous ftp from
black.ox.ac.uk:ota/dicts/1192/ [129.67.1.165]
The Oxford Text Archive includes many other texts, dictionaries,
thesauri, word lists, and so on, most of which are available for
scholarly use and research only. See the files
black.ox.ac.uk:ota/textarchive.{form,info,list,sgml}
for more information, or write to archive@ox.ac.uk, Oxford Text Archive,
Oxford University Computing Services, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2
6NN, UK, call 44-865-273238 or fax 44-865-273275.
Chuck Wooters <wooters@icsi.berkeley.edu> has extracted the most
likely pronunciation for each of about 6100 words in the hand-labeled
TIMIT database, and made them available by anonymous ftp from
ftp.icsi.berkeley.edu:pub/speech/TIMIT.mostlikely.Z.
A list of homophones from general American English is available by
anonymous ftp from svr-ftp.eng.cam.ac.uk:comp.speech/data/ as the file
homophones-1.01.txt. To receive the list by email, send mail to
Evan.Antworth@sil.org. The list was compiled by Tony Robinson.
Commercial:
Illumind publishes the Moby Thesaurus (25,000 roots/1.2 million
synonyms), Moby Words (560,000 entries), Moby Hyphenator (155,000
entries), and the Moby Part-of-Speech (214,000 entries) and Moby
Pronunciator (167,000 entries with IPA encoding, syllabification, and
primary, secondary, and tertiary stress marks) lexical databases. All
databases are supplied in pure ASCII, royalty-free, in both Macintosh
and MS-DOS disk formats (also in .Z file formats). Both commercial (to
resell derived structures as part of commercial applications) and
educational/research licenses are available. For more information,
write to Illumind, Attn: Grady Ward, 3449 Martha Court, Arcata, CA
95521, call 707-826-7715, or send email to grady@netcom.com.
The Oxford Text Archive has hundreds of online texts in a wide variety
of languages, including a few dictionaries (the OED, Collins, etc.).
The Lancaster-Oslo-Bergen (LOB), Brown, and London-Lund corpii are also
available from them. For more information, write to Oxford Electronic
Publishing, Oxford University Press, 200 Madison Avenue, New York, NY
10016, call 212-889-0206, or send mail to archive@vax.oxford.ac.uk.
(Their contact information in England is Oxford Text Archive, Oxford
University Computing Service, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN, UK, +44
(865) 273238.)
Mailing Lists:
CORPORA is a mailing list for Text Corpora. It welcomes information
and questions about text corpora such as availability, aspects of
compiling and using corpora, software, tagging, parsing, and
bibliography. To be added to the list, send a message to
corpora-request@x400.hd.uib.no. Contributions should be sent to
corpora@x400.hd.uib.no.
Linguistic Data Consortium:
The Linguistic Data Consortium was established to broaden the collection
and distribution of speech and natural language data bases for the
purposes of research and technology development in automatic speech
recognition, natural language processing, and other areas where large
amounts of linguistic data are needed. Information about the LDC is
available by anonymous ftp from ftp.cis.upenn.edu:/pub/ldc [130.91.6.8].
Documents available in this directory include a paper on the background,
rationale and goals of the LDC, a brief list of available data bases,
and some tables summarizing these corpora. For further information,
contact Elizabeth Hodas, <ehodas@walnut.ling.upenn.edu>, Mark Liberman
<myl@unagi.cis.upenn.edu>, or Jack Godfrey <jgodfrey@unagi.cis.upenn.edu>.
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Subject: [5-4] List of Smalltalk implementations.
Little Smalltalk -- Tim Budd's version of Smalltalk
cs.orst.edu: /pub/budd/small.v3.tar
GNU Smalltalk
prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/smalltalk-1.1.1.tar.Z
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Part 6 (Expert System Shells):
[6-1] Introduction and Acknowledgements
[6-2] Other Sources of Information
[6-3] Free/Cheap Expert System Shells
[6-4] Commercial Expert System Shells
Search for [#] to get to question number # quickly.
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Subject: [6-1] Introduction and Acknowledgements
This is a list of commercial expert system shells and companies
originally based on posts by Jason Trenouth <jason@harlequin.co.uk>,
George Betzos <gabetzos@mailbox.syr.edu>, and Foxvog Douglas
<dfo@vttoulu.tko.vtt.fi>, as well as parts of the commercial products
section of the AI FAQ. Thanks also to Arnold Bloemer
<bloemer@tnt.uni-hannover.de>, Hans Voss, Stephan Weber, Tom Laffey,
ljs@zycor.lgc.com, Hal Waters, Philip Vanneste, Daniel Corkill, Bruce
Chih-Lung Lin, Willem Van Dyk, Kan-Lee Liou, Les Degroff, Alex Kean,
Bob Orchard, Steve Witt, Cameron Laird, Thomas A. Russ, Peter Pavek,
Ingemar Hulthage, Jerry Franke, Julian Smart, Andrew Verden, Remi
Lissajoux, Patrick Albert, Patrick Suel, Liz Allen. Thanks to Richard
Fozzard for information about MIKE and ES.
Many "real-time" expert systems are 'soft' real-time systems, in that
they claim to be fast. A 'hard' real-time system would have features
that guarantee a response within a fixed amount of real-time (e.g.,
bounded computation, not just a fast match-recognize-act cycle).
Systems like G2 use event-driven processing (restricting certain rules
to execute only when specific WM elements change in a particular way)
as a method of limiting forward chaining.
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Subject: [6-2] Other Sources of Information
In addition to the free expert system shells listed below, the Prolog
Resource Guide lists a variety of Prolog implementations and products.
In addition to being backward-chaining systems, many prolog
implementations provide support for forward-chaining rules and other
expert systems requirements. For example, Amziod sells
Dennis Merritt's book, "Building Expert Systems in Prolog",
Springer-Verlag, 1989, for $47 (with disk containing source code for $82).
The July/August 1992 issue of PC AI magazine includes their annual
product guide for expert systems and related tools. The December 1992
issue of AI Expert Magazine, pages 42-49, contains an Expert System
Resource Guide. The February 1991 issue of IEEE Computer has an
article about Expert System Tools. Another article of possible
interest is "Selection Criteria for Expert System Shells: A
Socio-Technical Framework", by Anthony C. Stylianou, Gregory R. Madey,
and Robert D. Smith, CACM 35(10):30-48, October 1992.
Part 3 of the AI FAQ lists several key references on expert systems.
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Subject: [6-3] Free/Cheap Expert System Shells
FOCL -- ics.uci.edu:pub/SaranWrap/{README,KR-FOCL-ES.cpt.hqx}
Contact: pazzani@ics.uci.edu
Expert System Shell and Machine Learning Program;
Extends Quinlan's FOIL.
SOAR -- ftp.cs.cmu.edu:
/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/soar/public/Soar5/ -- Lisp Version
/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/soar/public/Soar6/ -- C Version
Contact: soar-request@cs.cmu.edu
Integrated Agent Architecture. Supports learning through chunking.
OPS5 -- ftp.cs.cmu.edu:user/ai/software/expert-systems/ops5.tar.Z
BABYLON-- gmdzi.gmd.de:gmd/ai-research/Software/ (129.26.8.90)
(BinHexed stuffit archive of Babylon)
Development environment for expert systems.
CLIPS 6.0 is an OPS-like forward chaining production system written in
ANSI C by NASA. The CLIPS inference engine includes truth maintenance,
dynamic rule addition, and customizable conflict resolution strategies.
CLIPS, including the runtime version, is easily embeddable in other
applications. CLIPS now includes an object-oriented language called COOL.
CLIPS runs on IBM PC compatibles (including Windows 3.1 and MS-DOS 386
versions), Macintosh, VAX 11/780, Sun 3/260, and HP9000/500. CLIPS is
available from COSMIC at a nominal fee for unlimited copies with no
royalties. (CLIPS is available free to NASA, USAF, and their contractors
for use on NASA and USAF projects.) For more information, email
service@cossack.cosmic.uga.edu, write COSMIC, University of Georgia, 382
East Broad Street, Athens, GA 30602, call 706-542-3265, or fax
706-542-4807. To subscribe to the CLIPS mailing list, send a message to
the list server listserv@cossack.cosmic.uga.edu (128.192.14.4) with
message body SUBSCRIBE CLIPS-LIST. An electronic bulletin board
containing information regarding CLIPS can be reached 24 hours a day at
713-280-5375 or 713-280-7552. Communications information is 300, 1200, or
2400 baud, no parity, 8 data bits, and 1 stop bit. The CLIPS help desk
phone number is 713-280-8919 and email address is
stbprod@krakatoa.jsc.nasa.gov. (The address is STB Products Help Desk,
LinCom Corporation, 1020 Bay Area Boulevard, #200, Houston, TX
77058-2628.) The book "Expert Systems: Principles and Programming" by
Joseph Girrantano and Garey Riley comes with an MS-DOS CLIPS 4.2
interpreter.
MIKE and ES:
The October/November 1990 issue of BYTE described two expert systems
named MIKE and ES. MIKE is a frame-based system built in an included
public domain Prolog for IBM-PCs. ES supports backward/forward
chaining, fuzzy set relations, and explanation, and is a standalone
executable for IBM-PCs. They are available by anonymous ftp from
ftp.uu.net:/pub/ai/expert-sys/ [192.48.96.9] as mike/mike1.tar.Z,
mike/mike2.tar.Z and summers.tar.Z. ftp.uu.net is mirrored on
unix.hensa.ac.uk [129.12.21.7] under /pub/uunet/.
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Subject: [6-4] Commercial Expert System Shells
The commercial products below are listed in alphabetical order.
1ST-CLASS, 1ST-CLASS FUSION, and 1ST-CLASS HT run on personal
computers. For more information, write to 1st-Class Expert Systems,
Inc., 526 Boston Post Road, Suite 150, Wayland, MA 01778 or call
800-872-8812 (508-358-7722). See PC Tech Journal 7(4):111, April, 1989
and PC Week 6(20):23, May 22, 1989.
ACTIVATION FRAMEWORK runs on personal computers and costs $5000. This
tool is not a tradition expert system shell, rather is a tool for
building real-time data interpretation applications. The vendor
claims the tool competes with Gensym's G2 in terms of application
domains. However, G2 is not a tool for end users, but rather for C
and/or Ada software developers. For more information, write to The
Real-Time Intelligent Systems Corporation, 26 Worthen Street,
Chelmsford, MA 01824, or call 508-250-4633.
Aion Development System (ADS) runs on numerous platforms, including
DOS, OS/2, SunOS, Microsoft Windows, and VMS. It includes an object
oriented knowledge representation, forward, backward, bidirectional,
and pattern matching rules, graphics, calls to/from other languages
(C, Pascal, ...), and the Choreographer graphical user interface. For
more information, write to Aion Corporation, 101 University Avenue,
Palo Alto, CA 94301, call 800-845-2466 (415-328-9595), or fax
415-321-7728. For Europe, write to Software Generation,
Kontichsesteenweg 40, B 2630 Aartselaar, Belgium, call
32-(0)3-877.12.93, or fax 32-(0)3-877.13.55
ART-IM and CBR Express run on personal computers (ART-IM $8,000, CBR
Express $10,000), workstations (CBR Express $12,500), and IBM
mainframes (CBR Express $150,000). Although ART-IM can be purchased
as a separate product, it is part of CBR Express. ART-IM does
forward-chaining, has object-oriented contructs, and a good C interface.
It will also do backward chaining but you have to program that into
the rules yourself (easy enough to do). For more information, write
to Inference Corporation, 550 North Continental Boulevard, El Segundo,
CA 90245, call 213-322-0200, or fax 213-322-3242.
BABYLON. For more information, write to VW-GEDAS GmbH, Pascalstrasse
11, W-1000 Berlin 10, call +49 30-39-970-0, or fax +49 30-39-970-999.
CLIPS is an OPS-like forward chaining production system written in ANSI C
by NASA. The CLIPS inference engine includes truth maintenance, dynamic
rule addition, and customizable conflict resolution strategies. CLIPS,
including the runtime version, is easily embeddable in other applications.
CLIPS runs on IBM PC compatibles, Macintosh, VAX 11/780, Sun 3/260, and
HP9000/500. CLIPS is available from COSMIC at a nominal fee for unlimited
copies with no royalties. CLIPS includes the Common Object-Oriented
Language (COOL) for real object-oriented programming. For more
information, email service@cossack.cosmic.uga.edu, write COSMIC,
University of Georgia, 382 East Broad Street, Athens, GA 30602, call
404-542-3265, or fax 404-542-4807. To subscribe to the CLIPS mailing list,
send a message to the list server listserv@cossack.cosmic.uga.edu
(128.192.14.4) with message body SUBSCRIBE CLIPS-LIST. An electronic
bulletin board containing information regarding CLIPS can be reached 24
hours a day at 713-280-3896 or 713-280-3892. Communications information is
300, 1200, or 2400 baud, no parity, 8 data bits, and 1 stop bit. The CLIPS
help desk phone number is 713-286-8919 and email address is
stbprod@krakatoa.jsc.nasa.gov. The book "Expert Systems: Principles and
Programming" by Joseph Girrantano and Garey Riley comes with an MS-DOS
CLIPS interpreter, but is geared toward an older version of CLIPS.
COGNATE runs on the Apple Macintosh and costs $250. For more
information, write to Peridom, PO Box 1812, Bowie, MD 20716, or call
301-390-9570. See also MacUser 4(12):134, December, 1988.
COGSYS. For more information, write to COGSYS Ltd., Enterprise House,
Unit 37, Salford University Business Park, Salford M6 6AJ, England, or
call 061-745-7604.
CRYSTAL runs on personal computers and is available from Intelligent
Environemnts. See PC Magazine 8(2), January 31, 1989.
ECLIPSE runs on personal computers (DOS, Windows). System V Unix and
POSIX versions are also available. The syntax is derived from
Inference Corporations' ART and is compatible with NASA's CLIPS.
Features include data-driven pattern matching, forward and backward
chaining, truth maintenance, support for multiple goals, relational
and object-oriented representations, and integration with dBase. For
more information, write to The Haley Enterprise, Inc., 413 Orchard
Street, Sewickley, PA 15143, call 412-741-6420, or fax 412-741-6457.
See also IEEE Computer, February 1991, pages 19-31. Cost is $999 for
Windows, $1,999 for Unix, $799 for DOS 386, and $1,499 for OS/2.
EXPERT-EASE runs on personal computers and is available from
Expertech, Ltd. See PC User (103):94, March 29, 1989.
Exper-OPS5-Plus runs on the Apple Macintosh and costs $495. For more
information, write to ExperTelligence, 5638 Hollister, Suite 302,
Goleta, CA 93117, call 800-828-0113 (except CA), 800-826-6144 (CA
only), or 805-967-1797. See MacUser 4(12):134, December, 1988.
EXSYS runs under MS-DOS, MS-Windows, Apple Macintosh, Sun Open Look,
Unix and Vax and is available from Exsys, Inc., 1720 Louisiana
Boulevard, NE, Suite 312, Albuquerque, NM 87110, call 800-676-8356
(505-256-8356), or fax 505-256-8359. See also PC Tech Journal
7(1):115, January, 1989. A demo version for MS-Windows or Macintosh is
available for $40. [6/93]
FLEX is a hybrid expert system toolkit available across a wide range of
different hardware platforms which offers frames, procedures and rules
integrated within a logic programming environment. FLEX supports
interleaved forward and backward chaining, multiple inheritance,
procedural attachment, an automatic question and answer system. Rules,
frames and questions are described in a English-like Knowledge
Specification Language (KSL) which enables the development of easy-to-read
and easy-to-maintain knowledge bases. FLEX is implemented in, and has
access to, Prolog. FLEX is available from LPA (who originally developed
flex on the PC), and also from most major Prolog vendors under license,
including Quintus, BIM, Interface, and ISL. FLEX has been used in
numerous commercial expert systems, and prices on a PC running Windows or
on a Macintosh start at around $1,000. [A review of Quintus-flex is
expected in an upcoming issue of PC-AI. --mk] For more information contact:
Logic Programming Associates Ltd, Studio 4, R.V.P.B., Trinity Road,
London, SW18 3SX. Tel: +44 81 871 2016; Fax: +44 81 874 0449.
Email: lpa@cix.compulink.co.uk
G2 is a real-time expert system shell that runs on workstations and
personal computers. It has real-time temporal reasoning, with rules,
procedures, and functions built around an object-oriented paradigm.
One can interface, both locally and over a network (TCP/IP and
DECnet), to other programs (C and ADA), control systems, and
databases. G2 provides distributed computing and a multi-user
client/server architecture. For more information, write to Gensym
Corporation, 125 Cambridge Park Drive, Cambridge, MA 02140, call
617-547-2500/9606, or fax 617-547-1962.
GBB, generic blackboard framework: provides:
-- A high-performance blackboard database compiler and
runtime library, which support pattern-based, multidimensional
range-searching algorithms for efficient proximity-based retrieval
of blackboard objects
-- KS representation languages
-- Generic control shells and agenda-management utilities
-- Interactive, graphic displays for monitoring and examining
blackboard and control components
These components provide the infrastructure needed to build
blackboard-based applications. GBB is available for DOS/Windows, Mac,
Unix workstations (Sun, HP/Apollo, IBM, DEC, Silicon Graphics),
Symbolics and TI Explorer Lisp machines. (GBB is a significantly enhanced,
commercial version of the UMass GBB research framework, available via
FTP from dime.cs.umass.edu:/gbb/.) NetGBB, distributed extension to
GBB, provides to GBB the communication and coordination facilities
needed to build heterogenous distributed blackboard applications.
For more information write to Blackboard Technology Group, Inc., 401 Main
Street, Amherst, MA 01002, call 413-256-8990, or fax 413-256-3179. To
be added to the mailing lists, send mail to gbb-user-request@bn.cs.umass.edu.
There are two mailing lists, gbb-user (moderated) and gbb-users (unmoderated).
GEST (Generic Expert System Tool) is a blackboard system internationally
licensed by Georgia Tech for expert system applications. Available on
Symbolics and SUN systems, GEST incorporates a number of knowledge
representation techniques and inference engine gearing mechanisms to
provide users a repertoire of knowledge structures to draw upon in
developing application systems. A tutorial demonstration expert system is
included with the GEST software and is included as a chapter in the
documentation. The Symbolics version of GEST will be available at no cost
via FTP on July 1, 1993. The SUN version license is $9,500 and includes
all source code. For licensing information, please contact Susan Coryell
at susan.coryell@gtri.gatech.edu, 404-894-5241 (office), 404-894-9081 (fax),
or write to Susan Coryell, GTRI-CSITL, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA 30332.
GOLDWORKS II. For more information, write to Gold Hill Computers, Inc.,
26 Landsdowne Street, Cambridge, MA 02139, call 800-242-5477
(617-621-3300), or fax 617-621-0656.
GURU is a real-time expert system that runs on personal computers. For
more information, write to Micro Data Base Systems, Inc. (MDBS), PO
Box 6089, Lafayette, IN 47903-6089 call 800-344-5832 (317-463-2581),
or fax 317-448-6428.
HyperX runs on the Apple Macintosh. For more information, write to
Millenium Software, 1970 S. Coast Highway, Laguna Beach, CA 92651, or
call 714-497-7439. See also MacWeek 3(5):6, January 31, 1989.
ILOG RULES is a high performance embeddable rule-based inference
engine. It is a forward chaining tool, written in C++ (hence it is
object-oriented and supports inheritance mechanisms) and is also
provided as a C++ library. It runs virtually on any Unix platform
(e.g., HP97X0, Sun4, RS/6000, DecStations) as well as on PCs running
DOS (with or without MS/Windows) or OS/2. It extends OPS/5 with
nested premises (objects as values), rule packets (logical grouping of
rules), a full Truth Maintenance System (TMS) for efficient
non-monotonic reasoning, compilation of rules into C/C++ code, and an
object oriented data-model in C++. ILOG RULES work directly on user
objects, so interfacing is straightforward. C/C++ code may be included
in rule conditions and actions. ILOG RULES is based on the fast XRETE
implementation of the RETE algorithm developed by Thomson-CSF. For
more information, contact ILOG, Inc., 2073 Landings Drive, Mountain
View, CA 94043, tel 415-390-9000, fax 415-390-0946, e-mail
info@ilog.com. European customers should contact ILOG SA, 2, av.
Gallieni, BP 85, 94253 Gentilly CEDEX, France, tel +33 (1)
46-63-66-66, fax +33 (1) 46-63-15-82, e-mail info@ilog.fr.
INTELLIGENT DEVELOPER runs on the Apple Macintosh and costs $395. For
more information, write to Hyperpress Publishing, PO Box 8243, Foster
City, CA 94404, or call 415-345-4620. See also MacUser 4(12):134,
December, 1988.
INTELLIGENCE COMPILER. For more information, write to Intelligence
Ware 9800 S. Sepulveda Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90045-5228 call
213-417-8896, or fax 213-417-8897.
Instant-Expert Plus runs on the Apple Macintosh and costs $498. For
more information, write to Human Intellect Systems, 1670 South
Amphlett Blvd, Suite 326, San Mateo, CA 94402, or call 800-522-5939
(415-571-5939). See also MacUser 4(12):134, December, 1988.
KBMS runs on personal computers. For more information, write to
AICorp, 138 Technology Drive, Waltham, MA 02254-9748, or call
617-891-6500. PC Week 6(35):63, September 4, 1989.
KEE, ProKappa, and Kappa run on personal computers, workstations, and
Lisp machines. For more information, write to IntelliCorp, Inc., 1975
El Camino Real West, Mountain View, CA 94040-2216, call
415-956-5660/5500 or fax 415-965-5647. See also Communications of the
ACM 31(4):382-401, April, 1988.
KES and SNAP run on personal computers (KES $4,000), workstations (KES
$10,000, SNAP $40,000 on most platforms), minicomputers (KES $25,000),
IBM mainframes (KES $60,000). Although KES can be purchased
separately, it is part of SNAP. For more information write to Software
Architecture and Engineering, Inc., 1600 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 500,
Arlington, VA 22209, call 703-276-7910, or fax 703-284-3821. Write to
Template Software, 13100 Worldgate Drive, Suite 340, Herndon, Virginia
22070, call 703-318-1000, or fax 703-318-7378.
Knowledge Craft runs on minicomputers and Lisp machines. For more
information, write to Carnegie Group, 5 PPG Place, Pittsburgh, PA
15222, call 800-284-3424 (412-642-6900), or fax 412-642-6906.
KnowledgeWorks runs on workstations (Sun3, Sparc, DEC (MIPS), HP
400,700, IBM RS6000, Intergraph, MIPS). It includes a CLOS-based
object system, OPS compatible forward chainer (2500 firings/sec on a
Sparc2), Prolog compatible backward chainer (40 KLIPS), graphical
programming environment, user-defined conflict resolution, MetaRule
Protocol for extending execution model, and a SQL interface for
relational databases. For more information write to Harlequin Inc.,
One Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA, call
1-800-works-for-you (1-800-967-5749) or 617-252-0052, or fax
617-252-6505. European customers should write to Harlequin Ltd.,
Barrington Hall, Barrington, Cambridge CB2 5RG, UK, call 0223-872522,
or fax 0223-872519. E-mail: knowledgeworks-request@harlqn.co.uk or
works@harlequin.com. They also sell LispWorks (a Common Lisp and Prolog
programming environment) -- see part 4 of the Lisp FAQ, MLWorks (an ML
programming environment), and Watson (an intelligence analysis tool).
Laser. For more information, write to Bell Atlantic Knowledge Systems,
Inc., P.O. Box 3528, Princeton, NJ 08543-3528, or call 800-552-2257
(609-275-8393).
Level5 and Level5/Macintosh runs on personal computers and the Apple
Macintosh ($695). For more information, write to Information Builders,
1250 Broadway, New York, NY 10001, or call 800-444-4303
(212-736-4433). See also MacUser 4(12):134, December, 1988, AI Expert
4(5):71, May, 1989, and MacUser 6(2):88, February, 1990.
M.4 runs on personal computers (DOS, Windows) and sells for $995
(special pricing is currently in effect, selling for $495). A version
for Sun workstations and the Apple Macintosh is under development. It
features a modular Kernel Library for linking into C-language
applications, backward and forward chaining, pattern matching,
certainty factors, procedural control, and an object-oriented
programming system. M.4 is embeddable, configurable, and extendable.
For more information, write to Cimflex Teknowledge Corporation, 1810
Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto, CA 94303, or call 800-285-0500
(415-424-0500), fax 415-493-2645.
MacSMARTS, MacSMARTS - Professional, and HyperSMARTS run on the Apple
Macintosh (all versions less than $500). For more information, write
to Directory Cognition Technology, 55 Wheeler Street, Cambridge, MA
02138, or call 617-492-0246. See also MacUser 4(12):134, December,
1988.
MERCURY KBE. For more information, write to Artificial Intelligence
Technologies, Inc., 40 Saw Mill River Road, Hawthorne, NY 10532, call
800-333-1406 (914-347-6860), or fax 914-347-3182.
MUSE. For more information, write to Cambridge Consultants, Science
Park, Milton Road, Cambridge CB4 4DW, England, or call
0223-420024 Cambridge.
NEXPERT OBJECT runs on over 30 platforms supported including personal
computers ($5000), Macintosh ($5000), workstations ($12,000),
minicomputers, and mainframes. Nexpert Object is written in C, and
includes a graphical user interface, knowledge acquisition tools, and
forms system. For more information, write to Neuron Data, 156
University Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94301, call 800-876-4900
(415-321-4488), or fax 415-321-3728. Other office include New York,
212-832-8900; Philadelphia, 215-941-2981; Washington, DC,
703-821-8800; Los Angeles, 714-851-4621; Chicago, 708-955-3688;
Houston, 713-739-9020; United Kingdom, 44-71-408-2333, fax
44-71-495-6274; France, 33-1-40-70-04-21, fax 33-1-47-23-71-43; and
Japan, 81-3-3746-4371, fax 81-3-3746-4374. See also IEEE Software
5(5):98, September, 1988, PC Tech Journal 6(11):112, November, 1988,
MacUser 4(12):134, December, 1988, MacUser 4(9):136, September, 1989,
Computer Language 6(12):123, December, 1989, PC Week 7(26):43, July 2,
1990, MacWeek 4(25):10, July 10, 1990, and IEEE Expert December, 1991,
page 72.
Personal Consultant Plus. For more information, write to Texas Instruments
PO Box 2909, MS/2240, Austin, TX 78769, or call 800-527-3500.
RAL (Rule-extended Algorithmic Language) is a C-based RETE (OPS83)
implementation that allows one to seamlessly add rules and objects to
C programs. It runs on Apollo, Sony News, AT&T 3B series, Aviion,
DecStation, HP9000, RS/6000, Sun3, Sparc, Pyramid, Stratus, Unix
System V 386 machines, VAX, microVAX (VMS) and DOS. Production Systems
Technologies was founded by Charles Forgy, the original inventor of
the RETE algorithm. For further information, write to Production
Systems Technologies, Inc., 5001 Baum Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA 15213,
call 412-683-4000 or fax 412-683-6347. [6/93]
RTworks is a family of independent software modules developed for
intelligent real-time data acquisition and monitoring, data analysis,
message/data distribution, and message/data display. RTworks offers a
number of sophisticated problem-solving strategies including
knowledge-based systems, a point-and-click graphical user interface,
temporal and statistical reasoning, and the ability to distribute an
application over a heterogeneous network. Included with RTworks is a
high-speed inference engine (RTie) which is used to analyze the data
using objects, classes, procedures, and rules. The IE can perform
trending, prediction and temporal reasoning of rapidly changing data.
Displays can be built by non-programmers using a user-friendly DRAW
program. More than 60 different formats are provided for displaying
input data including strip charts, bar charts, control charts, dials,
pie charts, and high-low graphs. Graphical objects can be tied to
variables which dynamically control attributes such as color, scale,
rotation, motion, animation, and more. RTworks runs in a
client-server architecture in which the RTserver process intelligently
distributes the application's messages and data to only the client
prcoesses which need them. User-defined client processes can connect
to the RTserver and send and receive messages with other processes in
the application. Possible applications include process control,
network monitoring, financial trading, and command and control.
RTworks is available on a variety of Unix and VMS platforms under a
floating license in which you pay only for the number of simultaneous
users, and the software is not node-locked to a particular machine.
Current RTworks customers include Lockheed, NASA, Dow Chemical, PG&E
(Pacific, Gas, and Electric), SWIFT, Mazda, and NTT. For further
information, write to Talarian Corporation, 444 Castro Street, Suite
140, Moutain View, CA 94041, call 415-965-8050, fax 415-965-9077, or
send E-mail to don@talarian.com or tom@talarian.com.
SMECI is an expert system shell based on Lisp. For more information,
contact ILOG, Inc., 2073 Landings Drive, Mountain View, CA 94043, tel
415-390-9000, fax 415-390-0946, email info@ilog.com. European
customers should write to ILOG, 2, av. Gallieni, BP 85, 94253 Gentilly
Cedex, France, tel +33 (1) 46-63-66-66, fax +33 (1) 46-63-15-82, email
info@ilog.fr.
TestBench, Shell is available from the Carnegie Group, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania. The development environment runs on the SUN workstations
and the production environment on a number of platforms including PCs and
NeXT machines.
VP-EXPERT runs on the Apple Macintosh. For more information, write to
Paperback Software, 2830 Ninth Street, Berkeley, CA 94710, or call
415-644-2116. See also MacUser 4(12):134, December, 1988.
YAPS is a tool for building expert systems and other programs that use
a rule-based knowledge representation in Lisp. The YAPS library
provides a CLOS class and appropriate methods which the programmer may
mix into his/her own classes or use directly. Rules and facts about
an instance are associated with the instance. Instead of one large
knowledgebase with many rules which are hard to debug and maintain,
the programmer creates smaller knowledge-bases which are modular and
more efficient. The YAPS knowledge-bases can interact with and be
controlled by the programmer's other modules, making hybrid systems
straightforward. Introduced by Liz Allen at AAAI-83, YAPS is now
available on Apple Macintosh, Sun3 and Sun4 (SPARC), DEC VAX under VMS
and Ultrix, and 88Open platforms. On workstations, a single license
costs $3995 and on the Macintosh (under Macintoch Common Lisp), it is
$445. YAPS runs in most commercial Common Lisps including Allegro CL,
Harlequin Lispworks, Lucid CL, IBUKI CL, and Macintosh Common Lisp.
YAPS is also available for the TI Explorer and Symbolic Lisp Machines,
and a Flavors version is available for Sun3 in Franz Lisp. Other
ports are underway -- for price and availability contact College Park
Software at 461 W. Loma Alta Dr., Altadena, CA 91001-3841, USA; or by
email at info@cps.altadena.ca.us, or call 818-791-9153 (voice) or
818-791-1755 (FAX).
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