AIList-REQUEST@SRI-AI.ARPA (AIList Moderator Kenneth Laws) (11/18/85)
AIList Digest Monday, 18 Nov 1985 Volume 3 : Issue 171 Today's Topics: Report - Limits of Correctness in Computers (CSLI), Awards - 1984 Information Awards of NSF, Review - Summary of Spang Robinson Report, Reports - ICOT Tech Reports ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed 13 Nov 85 17:05:26-PST From: Emma Pease <Emma@SU-CSLI.ARPA> Subject: Report - Limits of Correctness in Computers (CSLI) Report No. CSLI-85-36, ``Limits of Correctness in Computers'' by Brian Cantwell Smith, has just been published. This report may be obtained by writing to David Brown, CSLI, Ventura Hall, Stanford, CA 94305 or Brown@SU-CSLI. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Nov 85 18:00:11 est From: Ed Fox <fox%vpi.csnet@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA> Subject: SIGIR Forum Fall 85 - List of 1984 Information Awards of NSF [Excerpted from the IRList digest by Laws@SRI-AI.] I. INFORMATION SCIENCE PROGRAM Bolt Beranek & Newman User Goals as a Basis for an Intelligent System's Ability to Understand Ill- Formed Input--Weischedel, Ralph Brandeis Univ. Information Structure of a Natural Language Lexicon--Jackendoff, Ray Brown Univ. Cognitive Applications of Matrix Memory Models--Anderson, James A. ... II. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY III. INFORMATION IMPACT PROGRAM [For the full 13K text of this IRList Digest, FTP file <AILIST>NSFIS.TXT from SRI-AI, or send a request to AIList-Request@SRI-AI.ARPA. -- KIL] ------------------------------ Date: 9 Nov 1985 12:23-CST From: leff%smu.csnet@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA Subject: Summary of Spang Robinson Report FOCUS on MICRO Expert System tool kit Estimated 1985 market at 7 million with 11,000 tool kits. Sales figures: Human Edge Software's Expert Ease 1800 copies (Jan - May) Expert Edge 426 copies (Jan - October) Expertintelligence 3000 copies Level Five Research Insight 1 and 2 1300 copies Review of Symantec's Q&A and Paradoxes by ANSI, two AI products for industry. Reviews of the following Expert System tools including a nice comparative table with prices, machines available on, units sold and revenues from expert systems. First Class: limited to 256 examples and 32 factors per knowledge base but knowledge bases can be chained. Expert Ease: same limitations as firstclass Wisdom PX: quantitative analysis Wizdom XS: problem diagnostic KDS: can handle 4000 rules and has dialog oriented user interface TIMM: will infer an answer when the case does not exactly fit any of the examples entered. Will report when case is not close enough to any example. Will generate confidence factor. Also will allow different experts to be integrated into the same expert system RuleMaster: will allow user to create rule system with induction and then edit with a rule editor. Rule Based Systems PPE public domain system available for $20.00 MicroExpert for $49.95 (originally published in Byte but updated significantly) $95.00 Insight1 from Level 5 Research Insight2 from Level5 for $495.00. Includes cyclical control and interfaces to Turbo Pascal and dBase II and dbaseIII, supports math and confidence systems Exsys: suports math and confidence factors Expert Edge: imports files, object hierarchy High End Products Personal Consultant from TI M1 from Tecknowledge KES: supports frames, production rules, Bayes Theorems and is written in C Aion: checks for detached and redundant rules, has a Think Tank-like front end. Neuron Expert: Runs on on Macintosh, allows user to print network giving relationship of all rules Expertteach, includes Prolog 86, UO-Lisp and forward and backward inferencing engines in prolog, lisp, pascal and DBASE-II VENTURE CAPITAL interviews with Sprout Group and Mayfield Fund NEWS section Applied Expert Systems agreed to buy 1000 Xerox 1186 AI workstations; Applied Expert System markets PlanPower a personal financial planning system. It will be distributing this system through Travelers Insurance system to independent financial planners MAD Intelligent systems agreed to supply compatible workstations to the Philips group of companies, expected value: 15 million Software A&E's KES now runs on the Tektronix 4404. Migent Software has released ENRICH, The MEtods Expert, $595 on the IBM PC Carnegie Group has delivered "Dispatcher" to Digital Equipment, which dispatches order and controls material handling/conveyer for a printed wire board assembly plant. Discussion of Ford deal with Inference Corporation: LIST of recent events and changes of bindings. Review of Donald A. Waterman's "Guide to Expert Systems", "Market for Expert Systems bibliography of recent articles on AI and the PC. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Nov 85 10:31:04 cst From: Xu Yan ren <xu%smu.csnet@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA> Subject: ICOT Tech Reports .TS box; cb s s s s c|c|c|c n|ltw(1i)|ltw(3i)|ltw(1.5). ICOT TECHNICAL REPORT _ NO. Author Topic Comment _ 002 S. Kunifuji et. T{ PROLOG and Relational Data Bases for Fifth Generation Computer system T} _ 003 E.Y. Shapiro T{ A Subset Concurrent PROLOG and Its Interpreter T} _ 006 A. Takeuchi et. T{ Interprocess Communication in Concurrent PROLOG T} _ 008 H. Hirakawa T{ Chart Parsing in Concurrent PROLOG T} _ 013 H. Nishikawa et. T{ The Personal Sequential Inference Machine(PSI): Its Design Philosophy and machine architecture T} _ 016 M. Sato et. T{ Qute: A PROLOG/LISP Type Language for Logic Programming T} _ 017 T. Hikita T{ Average Size of Turner's Translation to Combinator Programs T} _ 018 H. Tamaki et. T{ A Transformation System for Logic Programs which Preserves Equivalence T} _ 019 H. Yasukawa T{ LFG in PROLOG --Toward a formal system for representing grammatical relations-- T} _ 020 H. Hirakawa et. T{ Implementing an OR-Parallel Optimizing PROLOG system (POPS) in Concurrent PROLOG T} _ 024 K. Sugiyama et. T{ A Knowledge Representation System in PROLOG T} _ 026 H. Yokota et. T{ An Enhanced Inference mechanism for Generating Relational Algebra Queries T} _ 027 H. Yasuura T{ On the parallel complexity of Unification T} _ 028 K. Sakai et. T{ Incorporating Naive Negation into PROLOG T} _ 029 K. Furukawa et. T{ Mandala: A Concurrent PROLOG Based Knowledge Programming Language/System T} _ 030 H. Enomoto et. T{ Paradigms of Knowledge Based Software System and Its Service Image T} _ 033 N. Ito et. T{ Parallel Inference Machine Based on the Data Flow Model T} _ 034 E. Shapiro T{ Systems programming in Concurrent PROLOG T} _ 035 N. Ito et. T{ Parallel PROLOG Machine Based on the Data Flow Model T} _ 041 M. Aso T{ Simulator of XP'S T} _ 042 R. Onai et. T{ An Approach to a Parallel Inference Machine Based on Control-Driven and Data-Driven Mechanisms T} _ 044 T. Chikayama et. T{ ESP Reference Manual T} _ 046 J. Tsuji et. T{ Dialogue Management in the Personal Sequential Inference Machine (PSI) T} _ .TE .TS box; cb s s s s c|c|c|c n|ltw(1i)|ltw(3i)|ltw(1.5). ICOT TECHNICAL REPORT _ NO. Author Topic Comment _ 053 S. Shibayama et. T{ A Relational Database Machine with Large Semiconducter Disk and Hardware Relational Algebra Processor T} _ 055 T. Hattori et. T{ SIMPOS: An Operating System for a Personal PROLOG Machine PSI T} _ 056 T. Hattori et. T{ The Concept and Facilities of SIMPOS Supervisor T} _ 057 S.Takagi et. T{ Overall Design of SIMPOS (Sequential Inference Machine Programming and Operating System) T} _ 058 F. Maruykama et. T{ PROLOG-Based Expert System for Logic Design T} _ 059 T. Hattori et. T{ The Concept and Facilities of SIMPOS File System T} _ 060 T. Yokomori T{ A Note on the Set Abstration in Logic Programming Language T} _ 061 T. Kurokawa et. T{ Coordinator -- the Kernel of the Programming System for the Personal Sequential Inference Machine (PSI) T} _ 062 K. Sakai T{ An Ordering for Term Rewriting Systems T} _ 063 H. Sakai et. T{ Design and Implementation of the Relational Database Engine T} _ 064 S. Shibayama et. T{ Query Processing Flow on RDBM Delta's Functionally-Distributed Architecture T} _ 065 K. Ueda et. T{ Efficient Stream/Array Processing in Logic Programming Language T} _ 066 K. Iwata et. T{ Design and Implementation of a Two-Way Merge-Sorter and its Application to Relational Database Processing T} _ 067 H. Enomoto et. T{ Natural Language Based Software Development System Tell T} _ 068 H. Enomoto et. T{ Formal Specification and Verification for Concurrent Systems by Tell T} _ 071 M. Sugimoto et. T{ Design concept for a Software Development Consultation System T} _ 072 T. Ida et. T{ Comparison of Closure Reduction and Combinatory Reduction Schemes T} _ 074 N. Miyazaki et. T{ An Overview of Relational Database Machine Delta T} _ 075 K. Taki et. T{ Hardware Design and Implementation of the Personal Sequential Inference Machine (PSI) T} _ 076 K. Furukawa et. T{ Mandala: A Logic Based Knowledge Programming System T} _ 084 K. Murakami et. T{ Architectures and Hardware Systems: Parallel Inference Machine and Knowledge Base Machine T} _ .TE .TS box; cb s s s s c|c|c|c n|ltw(1i)|ltw(3i)|ltw(1.5). ICOT TECHNICAL REPORT _ NO. Author Topic Comment _ 086 S. Uchida et. T{ Sequential Inference Machine: SIM Progress Report T} _ 088 H. Sawamura et. T{ Recursive Unsolvability of Determinacy, Solvable Cases of Determinacy and their Applications to PROLOG Opetimization T} _ 089 T. Kakuta et. T{ The Design and Implementation of Relational Database Machine Delta T} _ 090 T. Miyazaki et. T{ A Sequential Implementation of Concurrent PROLOG based on the Shallow Binding Scheme T} _ .TE ------------------------------ End of AIList Digest ********************