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AIList Digest Monday, 25 Nov 1985 Volume 3 : Issue 179 Today's Topics: Literature - Recent Articles ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 24 Nov 1985 19:55-CST From: leff%smu.csnet@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA Subject: Recent Articles %A Christine McGeever %T Databases: Artificial Intelligence Breeds Competition for Established Vendors %J Infoworld %V 7 %N 43 %D OCT 28, 1985 %K Paradox Symantec Q&A ANSA micro database %X Describes two database management systems which run on IBM PC's and which are allegedly using Artificial Intelligence. Paradox is a system which uses Query by Example with an Artifical Intelligence system that optimizes the query. Q&A uses an English front end and also uses query by example. %A Keith Thompson %T Paradox: Powerful Pricey, and Easy %J Infoworld %V 7 %N 43 %D OCT 28, 1985 %K Database query by example micro %X review of the Paradox system which uses artificial intelligence to optimize queries. It earned three diskettes out of five and had the following ratings performance: very good documentation: satisfactory ease of learning: very good ease of use: very good error handling: poor support: satisfactory value: satisfactory %A Dick Pountain %T Computers as Consultants %J BYTE %P 367-376 %V 10 %N 10 %D OCT 1985 %K Expert-Ease Tess EMYCIN micro Expert Edge %X reviews expert-ease (a decision tree generating system) and Tess which is an EMYCIN like program. %A Kenneth W. Kerber %T Review of Computer Culture: The Scientific, Intellectual and Social Impact of the Computer %J BYTE %P 57-58 %V 10 %N 10 %D OCT 1985 %X This book includes papers by John McCarthy (on the need for commonsense in expert sytems), Pamela McCorduck (on the promise of fifth generation computers), Seymour Papert (on cognitive reasoning), Daniel Dennett (on using computers to extend senses and imagination) and Feigenbaum (on automated knowledge acquisiton in expert systems) %A B. W. Wah %A C. F. Yu %T Stochastic Modeling of Branch-and-Bound Algorithms with Best-First Search %J IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering %V SE-11 %N 9 %D SEP 1985 %P 922-923 %X reprint of paper from Compsac 82 %A B. P. McCune %A R. M. Tong %A J. S. Dean %A D. G. Shapiro %T RUBRIC: A System for Rule-Based Information Retrieval %J IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering %V SE-11 %N 9 %D SEP 1985 %P 939-944 %A D. Keirsey %A J. Mitchell %A B. Bullock %A T. Nussmeier %A D. Y. Tseng %T Autonomous Vehicle Control Using AI Techniques %J IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering %D SEP 1985 %V SE-11 %N 9 %P 9086-991 %A Richard Fikes %A Tom Kehler %T The Role of Frame Based Representation in Reasoning %J CACM %D SEP 1985 %V 28 %N 9 %P 904-920 %K STAR_PLAN satellite alarms KEE %X describes STAR-PLAN which uses alarms to wake certain parts of an expert system when conditiosn requires its analysis. Also discusses frames in general and KEE. %A Frederick Hayes-Roth %T Rule-Based Systems %J CACM %D SEP 1985 %V 28 %N 9 %P 921-932 %A Michael R. Genesereth %A Matthew L. Ginsbert %T Logic Programming %J CACM %D SEP 1985 %V 28 %N 9 %P 933-941 %X prolog %A James R. Slagle %A Henry Hamburger %T An Expert System for a Resource Allocation Problem %J CACM %D SEP 1985 %V 28 %N 9 %P 994-1004 %K Battle %X describes a system for deciding how to allocate weapons. Goes into detail on its variation of A* to come up with a good approximation to the optimum configuration and how values are propagated through the network. The techniques described could be used in such applications as allocating advertising time in dealing with competitors in the marketplace. %A S. D. Morgera %T Information Theoretic Covariance Complexity and its Relation to Pattern Recognition %J IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics %D SEP/OCT 1985 %V SMC-15 %N 5 %P 608-619 %A A. Goshtasby %A G. C. Stockman %T Point Pattern Matching Using Convex Hull Edges %J IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics %D SEP/OCT 1985 %V SMC-15 %N 5 %P 631-636 %A R. Jakubowski %T Extraction of Shape Features for Syntactic Recongition of Mechanical Parts %J IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics %D SEP/OCT 1985 %V SMC-15 %N 5 %P 642-651 %T See $980M Sales in Vision Systems in 90 %J Electronic News %D SEP 16, 1985 %V 31 %N 1567 %P 21 %X Frost and Sullivan predicts a 980 million market in vision systems in 1990 with 480 million of which would be inspection and 200 million for identification and sorting %A Paul J. Besl %A Ramesh C. Jain %T Three-Dimensional Object Recognition %J ACM Computing Surveys %V 17 %N 1 %D MAR 1985 %P 75-145 %T New Configuration Added, Price Cut, For Processor %J Computer %P 122 %D MAY 1985 %V 18 %N 5 %K Symbolics lisp machine %X Symbolics announced a new configuration of its 3640 processor, the 3640-1711 which has two 140 MB Winchester disks and costs $71,080 and with one 140MB hard drive it costs $65,900. 2MB add-in board is $9,900 and an eight megabyte add-in memory board is $35, 000. %T TI Offers Personal Consultant Version %J ComputerWorld %D SEP 16, 1985 %V 19 %N 37 %P 61 %K micro %X discusses the new Personal Consultant Plus at $2950 and the new price for the old Personal Consultant of $950.00 %T Microcomputers %J ComputerWorld %D SEP 16, 1985 %V 19 %N 37 %P 66 %K RuleMaster Radian micro %X discusses enhancements to its Rulemaster with new screen and menu handling facilities. %A Takehisa Kondoh %T Japanese Consortium Set %J ComputerWorld %D SEP 16, 1985 %V 19 %N 37 %P 85 %K Nissin Structural Planning Institute JGC Intelligence Engineering Research Institute German Center for Comptuer Science %X describes a consortium called Intelligence Engineering Research Institute to be formed by European, US and Japanese companies. %T Insight to Interpret with Expert Reports on Mac %J Infoworld %V 7 %N 37 %D SEP 16, 1985 %P 61 %K Macintosh micro Layered Inc. accounting %X describes an accounting system with an AI program to help interpret the reports %T A Device that Heads Off Road Collision %J Business Week %D SEP 2, 1985 %P 77 %K Vehicle Radar Safety Systems, Inc. %X Describes a system to warn drivers of impending collisons. It does not falsely alarm for road signs and radar overpasses. %T Frey Associations to Exhibit Enhanced Version of Themis %J DEC HARDCOPY %V 14 %N 5 %P 94 %D MAY 1985 %K natural language database %X this is one of those systems that allow the user to give his queries in English to the database. It supports 1000 word vocabulary which can be expanded by the user. It works with Oracle's Relational Database Managmenet System and VaX Datatrieve. It sells for $24,000. %T Natural Language Software Builds Mainframe Databases %J ElectronicsWeek %D JAN 7, 1985 %V 58 %N 2 %P 49 %K Artificial Intelligence Corporation Intellect %X They announced Intellect/SX which allows users to set up their own lexicons, databases and manipulate their own databases. %T Bureaucracy Spawns Entrepreneurs %J High Technology %D FEB 1985 %P 20 %V 5 %N 2 %K Lockheed pilot airplain Getex navigation %X Describers AI system to airplane navigation making it possible to have a one pilot airplane. %A C. P. Neuman %A V. D. Tourassis %T Discrete Dynamic Robot Models %J IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics %V SMC-15 %N 2 %D MAR/APR 1985 %P 193-203 %A J. D. Wolter %A R. A. Volz %A Anthony C. Woo %T Automatic Generation of Gripping Positions %J IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics %V SMC-15 %N 2 %D MAR/APR 1985 %P 204-212 %A B. K. Kim %A K. G. Shin %T Minimum-Time Path Planning for Robot Arms and Their Dynamics %J IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics %V SMC-15 %N 2 %D MAR/APR 1985 %P 213-223 %A R. A. Brooks %A T. Lozano-Perez %T A Subdividsion Algorithm in Configuration Space for Findpath with Rotation %J IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics %V SMC-15 %N 2 %D MAR/APR 1985 %P 224-233 %A J. Rasmussen %T The Role of Hierarchical Knowledge Represenation in Decisionmaking and System Management %J IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics %V SMC-15 %N 2 %D MAR/APR 1985 %P 223-243 %A Mark R. Laff %A Brent Halpert %T SW 2 - An Object-based Programming Environment %J SIGPLAN 85 Symposium on Language Issues in Programming Environments %C Seattle, Washingto/n %D JUN 25-28, 1985 %I ACM %P 1-11 %A James Purtilo %T Polylith: An Environment to Support Management of Tool Interfaces %J SIGPLAN 85 Symposium on Language Issues in Programming Environments %C Seattle, Washingto/n %D JUN 25-28, 1985 %I ACM %P 12-18 %K Macsyma %X Describes a front end for Macsyma to allow interfacing it with various other tools as well as general concepts for front-ends. %A Nissim Francez %A Shalom Goldenberg %A Ron Y. Pinter %A Michael Tiomkin %A Shalom Tsur %T An Environment for Logic Program %J IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics %V SMC-15 %N 2 %D MAR/APR 1985 %P 179-190 %A Mark Moriconi %A Dwight F. Hare %T PegaSys: A System for Graphical Explanation of Program Designs %J IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics %V SMC-15 %N 2 %D MAR/APR 1985 %P 148-160 %A Henryk Jan Komorowski %A Shigeo Omori %T A Model and an Implementation of a Logic Programming Environment %J IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics %V SMC-15 %N 2 %D MAR/APR 1985 %P 191-198 %A Stephen Fickas %T Design Issues in a Rule-Based System %J IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics %V SMC-15 %N 2 %D MAR/APR 1985 %P 208-215 %A P. E. Lehner %A M. A. Probus %A M. E. Donnell %T Building Decison Aids: Exploiting the Synergy Between Decison Analysis and Artificial Intelligence %J IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics %V SMC-15 %N 4 %D JUL/AUG 1985 %P 469-474 %A Y. J. Tejwani %A R. A. Jones %T Machine Recognition of Partial Shapes Using Feature Vectors %J IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics %V SMC-15 %N 4 %D JUL/AUG 1985 %P 504-516 %A A. L. Porter %A F. A. Rossini %A J. Eshelman-Bell %A D. Jenkins %A D. J. Cancelleri %T Industrial Robots - A Strategic Forecast Using the Technological Delivery System Approach %J IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics %V SMC-15 %N 4 %D JUL/AUG 1985 %P 521-526 %A S. B. Ahuja %A J. A. Reggia %T Automated Classification of Complex Errors in Discrete Sequential Tasks %J IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics %V SMC-15 %N 4 %D JUL/AUG 1985 %P 527-531 %A S. Gaglio %A R. Minciardi %A P. P. Puliafto %T Multiperson Decision Aspects in the Construction of Expert Systems %J IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics %V SMC-15 %N 4 %D JUL/AUG 1985 %P 536-539 %A Y. Ichikawa %A N. Ozaki %T A Heuristic Planner and an Executive for Mobile Robot Control %J IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics %V SMC-15 %N 4 %D JUL/AUG 1985 %P 558-563 %A Charles L. Cohen %T AI Comes to the Aid of Pencil Pushers %J Electronics %P 58 %N 14 %D AUG 26, 1985 %P 18-19 %K pattern recognition VLSI Toshiba Expert System %X Describes an expert system that transforms pencil sketches of integrated circuit masks to computer compatible sketches. This was developed by Toshiba Corporation. It uses 2000 rules and a structure-matching method using model-based segmentation and hypothesis verfication. %A Alexander Wolfe %T How NASA Will Use AI in Space %J Electronics %D SEP 16, 1985 %P 32-327 %V 58 %N 37 %K expert systems space shuttle space station Empress LOX %K AI applications at NASA management of space resources controlling experiments, assisting in repairng planning and scheduling system for payload processing diagnostic system for loading liquid oxygen into the shuttle scheduling the operations of the tracking and data-relay satellite %A James Clifford %A David S. Warren %T Formal Semantics for Time in Databases %J ACM Transactions on Database Systems %D JUN 1983 %V 8 %N 2 %P 214-254 %A R. Emeett Carlyle %T Can AI Save Cobol %J Datamation %D SEP 15 %D SEP 15, 1985 %V 31 %N 18 %K expert systems T. Capers Jones maintenance %X T. Capers Jones has developed expert systems that will structure COBOL that produce code that takes 25 to 50 percent less time to maintain. %A Neil C. Rowe %T Top-down Statistical Estimatation on a Database %J SIGMOD Record %V 13 %N 4 %P 135-145 %K expert systems %X This system uses a set of general-purpose statistics on a database and then a set of inference rules to estimate other arbitrary statistics requested by users %A Janet L. Koldoner %T Indexing and Retrieval Strategies for Natural Language Fact Retrieval %J ACM Transactions on Database Systems %V 8 %N 3 %P 434-464 %D SEP 1983 %K Cyrus information retrieval %T Xerox Adds Low-End Workstations %J Electronic News %V 31 %N 1566 %D SEP 9, 1985 %P 37 %K lisp machines %X Describes new 1185 and 1186 with prices form 10,000 to 19,ppp. The 10,000 gets you an 1185 with 1.1 Mbytes RAM, 10 Mbyte Winchester and a 15 inch display. The 19 grand gets you 3.6M bytes RAM, 80 Mbyte disk and 19 inch display. %T Tektronix Unveils 2 New AI Systems %J Electronic News %V 31 %N 1566 %P 39 %T Kurzweil Names Financial Chief %J Electronic News %V 31 %N 1566 %P 39 %K Bernard F. Bradstreet %X Kurzweill Applied Intelligence named Bernard F. Bradstreet, a former Prime Computer vice president and treasurer, as vice president of finance and administration. %T Thoughtware Set To Buy Lightyear %J Electronic News %V 31 %N 1566 %D SEP 9, 1985 %P 52 %X Thoughtware, a delvoloper of decision support systems has agreed to acquire Lightyear, Inc. %T Raster, TI Sign Marketing PACT %J Electronic News %V 31 %N 1566 %D SEP 9, 1985 %P 42 %K Lisp Machine Graphics Explorer %X Raster Technologies has agreed to market its color graphics system for TI's Explorers. %T Expert System Language May Improve 1-2-3 %J InfoWorld %D NOV 4, 1985 %V 7 %N 44 %P 3 %K Teknowledge Lotus user interface expert system error correction M.1 %X Teknowledge is developing an M.1 front end to Lotus 1-2-3 which will distinguish semantic errors from syntax errors and to allow the user to express logic relationships. It also provides a query by example front end. M.1 is being rewritten in the C programming language. %T Advertisement %J InfoWorld %D NOV 4, 1985 %V 7 %N 44 %P 28 %X Advertisement for AI:Typist which is a $79.00 word processing system that has a spelling corrector that checks words as they are entered. Billed as "AIRUS-A Technology is so new it's still baffling the experts." %T Lisp Machines Adds 2 New Directors %J Electronic News %V 31 %N 1576 %D NOV 18, 1985 %P 27 %X Lisp Machines has added two new people to its board of directors: George J. Demos and Harold Shattuck. Art Marks has replaced Neil Bond on the board. %T Robotic Vision Taps Marketing V-P %J Electronic News %V 31 %N 1576 %D NOV 18, 1985 %P 90 %K Robotic Vision Systems %X Robotic Vision Systems Systems reported a loss for the second quarter of $319,000 compared with a $299,00 loss in the 1984 period. The sales for the three months was 2.7 million up from 1.3 million. Robotic Visions sell three-dimension vision-based robotic systems. They also named L. Knox Johnstone, formerly marketing manager of Robot Defense Systems, as vice president of marketing. %T System for Automated Troubleshooting %J NASA Tech Briefs %D Winter 1985 %V 9 %N 4 %P 166-167 %K maintenance expert system %X Describes software done by Leonard Friedman of Caltech in the area of diagnostic system for electromechanical mechanisms %T Automatic Guidance for Remote Manipulator %J NASA Tech Briefs %D Winter 1985 %V 9 %N 4 %P 68-69 %K robotics %X System based on maintaining a mirror on the object to be grasped with detectors and light sources on the end effector of the robot. It is patented (NO. 3,888,362) %A James A. Marti.n %T Nixdorf Expert System Shell Out %J ComputerWorld %D NOV 4, 1985 %V 19 %N 44 %P 31 %K Prolog MProlog Twaice Logicware %X Nixdorf announced an expert system shell based on Logicware's Prolog. The system supports a taxonomy model, rule compiler and a general lease is $70,000. %T News from the Industry Front %J ComputerWorld %D NOV 4, 1985 %V 19 %N 44 %P 31 %K Inference Carnegie Group Ford Motor %X Ford Motor purchased interest in Inference Corp and Carnegie Group.. These represent $14 million each. %A T. M. Mitchell %A L. I. Steinberg %A J. S. Shulman %T A Knowledge-Based Approach to Design %J IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence %V PAMI-7 %N 5 %D SEP 1985 %P 502-510 %K VLSI Design %A G. Kahn %A S. Nowlan %A J. McDermott %T Strategies for Knowledge Acquisition %J IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence %V PAMI-7 %N 5 %D SEP 1985 %P 511-522 %K maintenance MUD oil extraction MORE %X describes a general theory for when a domain is suited for diagnostic expert system based on shallow knowledge and how to construct the base. Then this was automated in a tool called MORE %A R. Rada %T Gradualness Facilitates Knowledge Refinement %J IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence %V PAMI-7 %N 5 %D SEP 1985 %P 523-530 %X describes a method to determine the weights of rules in expert systems based on the closeness of answers of the expert systems on the given answers %A A. Sathi %A M. S. Fox %A M. Greenberg %T Representaton of Activity Knowledge for Project Management %J IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence %V PAMI-7 %N 5 %D SEP 1985 %P 531-552 %A P. K. Fink %A J. C. Lusth %A J. W. Duran %T A General Expert System Design for Diagnostic Problem Solving %J IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence %V PAMI-7 %N 5 %D SEP 1985 %P 553-560 %X describes a structure to which any domain that needs to be diagnosed can be described as. This is for diagnostic system based on deep reasoning. %A P. S. Rosenbloom %A J. E. Laird %A J. McDermott %A A. Newell %A E. Orciuch %T R1-Soar: An Experiment in Knowledge-Intensive Programming in a Problem-Solving Architecture %J IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence %V PAMI-7 %N 5 %D SEP 1985 %P 561-569 %A D. M. McKeown, Jr. %A W. A. Harvey, Jr. %A J. McDermott %T Rule-Based Interpretation of Aerial Imagery %J IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence %V PAMI-7 %N 5 %D SEP 1985 %P 570-585 %K vision %A C. V. Apte %A S. M. Weiss %T An Approach to Expert Control of Interactive Software Systems %J IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence %V PAMI-7 %N 5 %D SEP 1985 %P 586-591 %K well-log geology ELAS %X describes a system for dynamic selection and interpretation fo appropriate programs and parameters in the area of well-log analysis %A Yizong Cheng %A King-Sun Fu %T Conceptual Clustering in Knowledge Organization %J IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence %V PAMI-7 %N 5 %D SEP 1985 %P 592-598 %K Huato traditional Chinese medicine %X describes an expert system for "traditional Chinese medicine." ------------------------------ End of AIList Digest ********************