C4.5

C4.5

Author: J. Ross Quinlan

Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 9781558602380

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This book is a complete guide to the C4.5 system as implemented in C for the UNIX environment. It contains a comprehensive guide to the system's use, the source code (about 8,800 lines), and implementation notes.


Machine Learning: ECML-93

Machine Learning: ECML-93

Author: Pavel B. Brazdil

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 1993-03-23

Total Pages: 492

ISBN-13: 9783540566021

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This volume contains the proceedings of the Eurpoean Conference on Machine Learning (ECML-93), continuing the tradition of the five earlier EWSLs (European Working Sessions on Learning). The aim of these conferences is to provide a platform for presenting the latest results in the area of machine learning. The ECML-93 programme included invited talks, selected papers, and the presentation of ongoing work in poster sessions. The programme was completed by several workshops on specific topics. The volume contains papers related to all these activities. The first chapter of the proceedings contains two invited papers, one by Ross Quinlan and one by Stephen Muggleton on inductive logic programming. The second chapter contains 18 scientific papers accepted for the main sessions of the conference. The third chapter contains 18 shorter position papers. The final chapter includes three overview papers related to the ECML-93 workshops.


FME '93: Industrial-Strength Formal Methods

FME '93: Industrial-Strength Formal Methods

Author: Jim Woodcock

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 712

ISBN-13: 9783540566625

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The last few years have borne witness to a remarkable diversity of formal methods, with applications to sequential and concurrent software, to real-time and reactive systems, and to hardware design. In that time, many theoretical problems have been tackled and solved, and many continue to be worked upon. Yet it is by the suitability of their industrial application and the extent of their usage that formal methods will ultimately be judged. This volume presents the proceedings of the first international symposium of Formal Methods Europe, FME'93. The symposium focuses on the application of industrial-strength formal methods. Authors address the difficulties of scaling their techniques up to industrial-sized problems, and their suitability in the workplace, and discuss techniques that are formal (that is, they have a mathematical basis) and that are industrially applicable. The volume has four parts: - Invited lectures, containing a lecture by Cliff B. Jones and a lecture by Antonio Cau and Willem-Paul de Roever; - Industrial usage reports, containing 6 reports; - Papers, containing 32 selected and refereedpapers; - Tool descriptions, containing 11 descriptions.


Conceptual Graphs for Knowledge Representation

Conceptual Graphs for Knowledge Representation

Author: Guy W. Mineau

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 1993-07-14

Total Pages: 470

ISBN-13: 9783540569794

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Artificial Intelligence and cognitive science are the two fields devoted to the study and development of knowledge-based systems (KBS). Over the past 25years, researchers have proposed several approaches for modeling knowledge in KBS, including several kinds of formalism such as semantic networks, frames, and logics. In the early 1980s, J.F. Sowa introduced the conceptual graph (CG) theory which provides a knowledge representation framework consisting of a form of logic with a graph notationand integrating several features from semantic net and frame representations. Since that time, several research teams over the world have been working on the application and extension of CG theory in various domains ranging from natural language processing to database modeling and machine learning. This volume contains selected papers fromthe international conference on Conceptual Structures held in the city of Quebec, Canada, August 4-7, 1993. The volume opens with invited papers by J.F. Sowa, B.R. Gaines, and J. Barwise.


Ai '93 - Proceedings Of The 6th Australian Joint Conference On Artificial Intelligence

Ai '93 - Proceedings Of The 6th Australian Joint Conference On Artificial Intelligence

Author: C Rowles

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 1993-09-23

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 9814552534

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This volume reflects the state of the art in artificial intelligence in the Australasian region. It covers machine learning, knowledge acguisition, cognitive modelling, robots and vision, natural language, automated reasoning, knowledge-based systems, neural networks and genetic algorithms, distributed AI, etc.


Computational Theories of Interaction and Agency

Computational Theories of Interaction and Agency

Author: Philip Agre

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 794

ISBN-13: 9780262510905

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Over time the field of artificial intelligence has developed an "agent perspective" expanding its focus from thought to action, from search spaces to physical environments, and from problem-solving to long-term activity. Originally published as a special double volume of the journal Artificial Intelligence, this book brings together fundamental work by the top researchers in artificial intelligence, neural networks, computer science, robotics, and cognitive science on the themes of interaction and agency. It identifies recurring themes and outlines a methodology of the concept of "agency." The seventeen contributions cover the construction of principled characterizations of interactions between agents and their environments, as well as the use of these characterizations to guide analysis of existing agents and the synthesis of artificial agents.Artificial Intelligence series.Special Issues of Artificial Intelligence


Applied Algebra, Algebraic Algorithms and Error-Correcting Codes

Applied Algebra, Algebraic Algorithms and Error-Correcting Codes

Author: GĂ©rard Cohen

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 1993-04-20

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 9783540566861

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Researchers may find themselves confronted with proteases, either because they play an essential role in a particular process they are studying, or because they interfere with that process. In either case they may need to investigate or inhibit the proteolytic activity. Others may wish to use proteolytic enzymes as laboratory tools. This book has been written with these investigators in mind and includes assay methods using natural and artificial substrates, genetic-based assays, and strategies for the inhibition, purification and crystallization of proteases. In selected chapters the use of proteolytic enzymes to analyze proteins, segregate cells or in peptide synthesis is covered.


Live Data Structures in Logic Programs

Live Data Structures in Logic Programs

Author: Anne Mulkers

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 1993-05-27

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9783540566946

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A common hazard for implementations of applicative programming languages is the excessive creation of garbage cells during program execution. The available run-time garbage collecting processes are expensive in time and often require a periodic disruption of the program execution. The present book addresses the problem of memory re-use for logic programs through program analysis rather than by run-time garbage collection. The static analysis is constructed as an application of abstractinterpretation for logic programs. The starting point is a previously developed application of integrated type and mode analysis, which basically supplies a description of the logical terms to which program variables can be bound at run time. The contribution of the book consists of a modular extension of the abstract domain and operations in order to derive run-time properties concerning the sharing and liveness of term substructures dynamically created during program execution. Alsoillustrated is how such information can be used by the compiler to improve the allocation of run-time structures and to automatically introduce destructive assignments in logic languages in a safe and transparent way, thereby shifting some part of the run-time storage reclamation overhead to compile time.