-*- Mode: Text -*- ;;; File: Autoclass:program:doc;introduction.text ;;;————————————————————————–;;; ;;; AUTOCLASS 3.0 Released 5/11/90 contact: Taylor@pluto.arc.nasa.gov ;;; ;;; by P. Cheeseman, J. Stutz, R. Hanson, W. Taylor ;;; ;;; NASA Ames Research Center, MS 244-17, Moffett Field, CA 94035 ;;; ;;; ;;; ;;; Copyright (C) 1990 Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science. ;;; ;;; All rights reserved. The RIACS Software Policy contains specific ;;; ;;; terms and conditions on the use of this software, and must be ;;; ;;; distributed with any copies. THIS FILE MAY BE REDISTRIBUTED. This ;;; ;;; copyright and notice must be preserved in all copies made of this file. ;;; ;;;————————————————————————–;;; ;;; revised 6/06/90 for 3.0.2 Welcome to the AutoClass Documentation! The documentation is divided into a basic core that most users will need to at least skim through, and various other supporting documentation. BASIC DOCUMENTATION: preparation.text How to prepare data for use by AutoClass search.text How to run Autoclass to find classifications. reports.text How to examine the classification in various ways. interpretation.text How to interpret AutoClass results. checkpoint.text Protocols for running a checkpointed search. SUPPORTING DOCUMENTATION: legal-notice.text What we are agreeing to legally. classes.text What classification is all about, for beginners. ac2-vs-ac3.text Diferences between AutoClass II and III. design.text Some hows and whys of the implementation. reports-math.text Theory behind influence values used in the reports. ml-88.tex A Latex version of this paper describing Autoclass: Peter Cheeseman, Don Freeman, James Kelley, Matthew Self, John Stutz, and Will Taylor. "AutoClass: a Bayesian classification system." In Proceeedings of the Fifth International Conference on Machine Learning, 1988.