[mod.ai] Seminar - Connectionist Expert Systems

rich@gte-labs.CSNET (Rich Sutton) (06/04/86)

           "Connectionist Expert Systems in a Noisy World"
	 	       by Stephen I. Gallant 
 
This talk will describe a model for connectionist expert systems
(MACIE) and show how it is well suited to noisy and redundant
environments.
 
     Connectionist expert systems are diagnostic expert systems
based upon a connectionist model with several interesting features:
 
     -- They can be generated from training examples (and/or rules)
 
     -- They perform forward chaining to make conclusions and 
        backward chaining to elicit additional information
 
     -- They give IF-THEN rules to justify their inferences, even
        though their knowledge base contains no such rules
 
     -- They are arguably less prone to brittle behavior than
        traditional expert systems.
 
     In the talk it will be shown how an expert system for a noisy
and redundant problem can be constructed from:  (1) a noise-free 
model of an underlying process (perhaps a traditional expert 
system) and (2) a model for the noise involved.  System generation 
is entirely automated.
 
Where:	 GTE Labs, Waltham, MA
When:	 June 11th, 9:30 am
Contact: Rich Sutton, rich@gte-labs.csnet, 617-466-4133 (or 466-4207)
Net address of speaker: sig@northeastern
Also:	 That afternoon we will have an informal research meeting of
	 connectionists from GTE, UMass, and Northeastern
Welcome: Visitors are welcome!