PJURKAT@VAXC.STEVENS-TECH.EDU (04/15/88)
This is to thank all the people who responded to my request for ideas and references on any work that had been done, since the original, on the kind of heuristics that were developed by Lenat in his AM. Several of you not only provided references but also suggested ideas and comments that proved interested to both my student and myself. Thanks again. Several responses, without providing any other thoughts, merely suggested that my student look in "Science Citation Index". My student, of course, had done so but at Stevens the use of the Index is not free. The search, when finally completed, cost over $60. Not all the students who attend Stevens can afford that and neither the school nor the Department is in a position to fund searches for all such queries. Not all of us work at affluent organizations and I was hoping that the AIList members consider themselves enough of a community to provide such help. I was not wrong!!! cheers - peter jurkat ------------