ledoux@AEROSPACE.ARPA (08/21/86)
ACM LOS ANGELES CHAPTER DINNER MEETING
WEDNESDAY, 3 SEPTEMBER 1986
STRUCTURED EXPERT RULE INDUCTION
Expert Systems and Computer Chess
Speaker: Dr. Alen Shapiro
One of the major problems with expert systems is "the knowledge
engineering bottleneck." This occurs when development is delayed
because specifications are unavailable and either the expert system
developers need time to learn the problem, or else the domain experts
who already know the problem need time to learn how to use the often
opaque expert system development languages. A promising approach to
overcoming the bottleneck is to build tools that automatically extract
knowledge from the domain experts. This talk presents an overview of
inductive knowledge acquisition and the results of experiments in
inductive rule generation in the domain of chess endgames. The system
that will be described was able to generate humanly-understandable rules
and to play correct chess endgames. This research has significant
implications for the design of expert system languages and rule
induction programs. The talk is also an interesting look into the world
of computer chess.
Dr. Shapiro, a Fellow of the Turing Institute since its inception in
1983, received his Ph.D. in Machine Intelligence from the University of
Edinburgh in 1983. From 1979 to 1986 he was associated with Intelligent
Terminals, Ltd., and a member of the Rulemaster and Expert-Ease design
teams. He has served as Visiting Professor at the University of
Illinois on two occasions. His publications include articles on pattern
recognition, automatic induction of chess classification rules, and
(with David Michie), "A Self-Commenting Facility for Inductively
Synthesized Endgame Expertise."
In 1986 Dr. Shapiro joined the New Technology Department at Citicorp-TTI
in Santa Monica as a Computer Scientist concerned with the development
of inductive knowledge engineering tools for the banking industry.
PLACE
Amfac Hotel
8601 Lincoln Blvd.
corner of Lincoln & Manchester
Westchester, California
MENU
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Filet of Petrole Sole
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Friday, 29 August 1986.
Call Mary Ellen Brennan, (213)648-7250.
TIME
Executive Council 5:00 p.m.
Cocktails 6:00 p.m.
Dinner 7:00 p.m.
Program 8:00 p.m.