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- Subject: [10] Genetic Algorithms
-
- 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.
-
- See also the July 1992 issue of Scientific American.
-
- Collections:
-
- Davis, L., 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.
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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.
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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", 1992. [A 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
-
-
- 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.
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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.
-
- 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.
-
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- Subject: [19] Nonmonotonic Reasoning
-
- 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.
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- Subject: [20] Robotics and Computer Vision
-
- John J. Craig, "Introduction to Robotics", Addison-Wesley,
- Reading, MA, 1989.
-
- Martin A. Fischler and Oscar Firschein, editors, "Readings in
- Computer Vision", Morgan Kaufmann, San Mateo, CA, 1987.
-
- J. Michael Brady, "Computational approaches to image understanding",
- ACM Computing Surveys 14(1):3-71, March 1982. (Survey of methods in
- computer vision.)
-
- 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]
-
- 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-lab.media.mit.edu>.
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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] 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: [23] Miscellaneous
-
- Cyc:
-
- "CYC", AI Magazine 1986, 7(1), 1986.
-
- Also, 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: [24] 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.
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- Part 3 (FTP Resources):
- [3-0] General Information about FTP Resources for AI
- [3-1] FTP Repositories
- [3-2] FTP and Other Resources
- [3-3] AI Bibliographies available by FTP
- [3-4] AI Technical Reports available by FTP
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- Search for [#] to get to question number # quickly.
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- Subject: [3-0] General Information about FTP Resources for AI
-
- 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].
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- Subject: [3-1] FTP Repositories
-
- 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 (128.97.50.19):~ftp/pub/alife
-
- 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
- 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. 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.
-
- Fuzzy Logic Repositories:
-
- ntia.its.bldrdoc.gov:pub/fuzzy 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:fuzzy/.
- 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, 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.
-
- UC/Irvine 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).
-
- Site Librarian: Patrick M. Murphy (ml-repository@ics.uci.edu)
- Off-Site Assistant: David W. Aha (aha@insight.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.
-
- 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 annonymous ftp from funic.funet.fi:/pub/sci/neural. For
- further information, contact 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)
-
- 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 by anonymous ftp to tira.uchicago.edu (IP 128.135.96.31), by
- email to registry@tira.uchicago.edu, and by physical mail to NL
- Software Registry, Center for Information and Language Studies, 1100
- East 57th Street, Chicago, IL 60637.
-
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- Subject: [3-2] 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.
-
- 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 -- Contact: waander@cs.umd.edu
-
- 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 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. Contact Steven J. Edwards,
- sje@xylos.ma30.bull.com for more information.
-
- Expert Systems:
-
- 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.
-
- OPS5 -- ftp.cs.cmu.edu:/afs/cs/user/mkant/Public/Lisp/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 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. 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 713-280-2233 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.
-
- Frame Systems:
-
- FrameWork -- ftp.cs.cmu.edu:
- /afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/mkant/Public/Lisp/framework.lisp
-
- 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
-