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From: mkant+@cs.cmu.edu (Mark Kantrowitz)
Subject: FAQ: Artificial Intelligence FTP Resources 4/6 [Monthly posting]
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If you think of questions that are appropriate for this FAQ, or would
like to improve an answer, please send email to mkant+ai-faq@cs.cmu.edu.
Please note that the FTP Resources are now split across parts 4 and 5
of the AI FAQ.
Part 4 (FTP Resources):
[4-0] General Information about FTP Resources for AI
[4-1] FTP Repositories
[4-2a] FTP and Other Resources: Agents -- Planning
[4-2b] FTP and Other Resources: Qualitative Reasoning -- Theorem Proving
Note: Question [4-2] is split across parts 4 and 5.
Search for [#] to get to question number # quickly.
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Subject: [4-0] General Information about FTP Resources for AI
Remember, when ftping compressed or compacted files (.Z, .z, .arc, .fit,
etc.) to use binary mode for retrieving the files.
Files that end with a .z suffix were compressed with the patent-free
gzip (no relation to zip). Source for gzip is available from:
prep.ai.mit.edu:pub/gnu/{gzip-1.2.3.shar,gzip-1.2.3.tar,gzip-1.2.3.msdos.exe}
If you do not have ftp access, you can FTP files by E-mail. Send a
message with the word "help" in the body to ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com.
In general, see the Lisp FAQ for Lisp-related software and the Prolog
Resource Guide and the Prolog FAQ for Prolog-related software. If a
Lisp-based or Prolog-based system is listed here, only the ftp site
and directory will be listed; for a more detailed description, see the
Lisp FAQ and the Prolog Resource Guide. For information on obtaining
the Lisp FAQ or the Prolog Resource Guide see [1-0].
When referring to software, "alpha" indicates an internal early
release, "beta" indicates an external early release, and "omega"
indicates an external "finished" release. Generally an "alpha" release
means the creator hasn't yet tested for bugs.
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Subject: [4-1] FTP Repositories
CMU AI Repository:
Construction of the repository is taking longer than expected. (You
don't realize how slow ftp is until you try ftping several hundred
megabytes at a time.) We're about 90% done collecting materials,
and are currently reorganizing the contents. It should become available
within a week or two, the end of August at the latest. An announcement
will be made to all relevant newsgroups and mailing lists when the
repository is ready.
Ada Repository:
The Ada Repository on wsmr-simtel20.army.mil (mailing list
ada-sw@wsmr-simtel20.army.mil) contains a directory of AI programs in
PD2:<ADA.AI>*.*. A somewhat easier to access copy of the archives is
available as wuarchive.wustl.edu:/mirrors/ada/ai.
UCLA Artificial Life Depository:
ftp.cognet.ucla.edu:~ftp/pub/alife [128.97.8.19]
Repository of papers, articles, tech reports, software and other items of
interest to Artificial Life researchers. It includes an archive of
past postings to the alife mailing list, alife@cognet.ucla.edu (send
mail to alife-request@cognet.ucla.edu to be added to the list).
(Other artificial life information is available from santafe.edu
or ftp.santafe.edu [192.12.12.1] in the directory
pub/Artificial-Life-III.)
Consortium for Lexical Research:
clr.nmsu.edu [128.123.1.12]
equivalently, lexical.nmsu.edu [128.123.1.12]
Archive containing a variety of programs and data files related to
natural language processing research, with a particular focus on
lexical research. See the file catalog-short for a quick listing of
the contents of the archive. Long descriptions are in the info/
subdirectory. Publicly available materials are in the pub/
subdirectory (see pub/catalog). Materials for paid-up members of the
Consortium are in the members-only/ subdirectory. Public materials
include the Alvey Natural Language Tools, Sowa's Conceptual Graph
parser implemented in YACC by Maurice Pagnucco, a morphological
parsing lexicon of English, a phonological rule compiler for PC-KIMMO,
C source code for the NIST SGML parser, PC-KIMMO sources, the 1911
Roget Thesaurus, and a variety of word lists (including English,
Dutch, and male/female/last names). Comments and questions may be
directed to lexical@nmsu.edu.
FJ Repository:
The FJ Repository contains freeware from Japan (FJ = "From Japan").
The fj.sources subdirectory is a good place to look for free
software from Japan. Some files in the repository may contain
Kana and Kanji characters. The repository is available by
anonymous ftp from
utsun.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp:fj/fj.sources [133.11.11.11]
The file Index contains an index of all the files in each volume.
Files of particular interest include:
v07/786: Portable Prolog for Common Lisp
v25/2577: General-Purpose Fuzzy Inference Library Ver. 3.0 (1/1)
Fuzzy Logic Repositories:
ntia.its.bldrdoc.gov:pub/fuzzy [132.163.64.201] contains information
concerning fuzzy logic, including bibliographies (bib/), product
descriptions and demo versions (com/), machine readable published
papers (lit/), miscellaneous information, documents and reports (txt/),
and programs, code and compilers (prog/). You may download new items
into the new/ subdirectory. If you deposit anything in new/, please
inform fuzzy@its.bldrdoc.gov. The repository is maintained by
Timothy Butler, tim@its.bldrdoc.gov. The Fuzzy Logic Repository is also
accessible through a mail server, rnalib@its.bldrdoc.gov. For help on
using the server, send mail to the server with the following line in
the body of the message:
@@ help
Other commands available include index, list, find, send, and credits.
Ostfold Regional College in Norway recently started a ftp site
for material related to fuzzy logic, ftp.dhhalden.no:pub/Fuzzy/
[158.36.33.11]. Material to be included in the archive (e.g.,
papers and code) may be placed in the upload/ directory. Now holds the
files from Togai's mail-server, and other files from Timothy Butler's
site ntia.its.bldrdoc.gov. It also includes some demo programs. Send
email to Asgeir Osterhus, <asgeiro@dhhalden.no>.
Togai InfraLogic, Inc. (TIL) also runs a fuzzy logic email server
which contains demo versions of some of their software, fuzzy logic
bibliographies, conference announcements, a short introduction to
fuzzy logic, copies of the company newsletter, archives of
comp.ai.fuzzy, and so on. See the entry in the answer to question
[1-8] for more information on the company. To get started with the
fuzzy logic email server, send a message with NO SUBJECT LINE to
fuzzy-server@til.com, containing just the word "help" in the message
body. The server will reply with a set of instructions. Please
address any comments, questions or requests to either erik@til.com or
tanaka@til.com. Most of the contents of the TIL server is mirrored at
Tim Butler's fuzzy logic ftp repository at ntia.its.bldrdoc.gov and at
Ostfold ftp repository at ftp.dhhalden.no. For more information,
write to Togai InfraLogic, Inc., 5 Vanderbilt, Irvine, CA 92718 or
call 714-975-8522.
The Aptronix FuzzyNet files are available through an email
server. Send email to fuzzynet@aptronix.com with "help"
in the message body to get instructions on how to retrieve files.
"catalog" or "index" will get you a listing of available files.
(You can also connect to the FuzzyNet repository by modem to Aptronix
FuzzyNet 408-428-1883 N/8/1 1200-19,200 baud.) Files on the server
include descriptions of fuzzy logic applications (e.g., washing
machines, camera focusing, air conditioning), introductory materials,
Fide related information, archives of comp.ai.fuzzy, etc. If you'd
like to have a file included in the FuzzyNet server (e.g., moderate
length technical reports), send email to Scott Irwin
<irwin@aptronix.com>.
Genetic Algorithms:
The Genetic Algorithms Repository is located at ftp.aic.nrl.navy.mil. It
includes past copies of the genetic algorithms digest in /pub/galist/, a
copy of Nici Schraudolph's survey of free and commercial GA software in
/pub/galist/information/ga-software-survey.txt (send email to
<schraudo@cs.ucsd.edu> to add to the list), and some software, including
GAC (a simple GA written in C), GAL (a simple GA written in Common Lisp),
GAucsd, GECO (a Common Lisp toolbox for constructing genetic algorithms),
GENESIS, GENOCOP, Paragenesis (a parallel version of GENESIS that runs on
the CM-200), SGA-C (a C implementation/extension of Goldberg's SGA
system).
Genetic Programming:
The Genetic Programming Repository is located at
ftp.cc.utexas.edu:pub/genetic-programming/ [128.83.186.13]. It
contains the archives of the genetic programming mailing list
(including the GP FAQ posting), papers and source code. The source
code includes the GP implementation from Koza's book and some related
systems.
UC/Irvine (UCI) AI/Machine Learning Repository:
ftp.ics.uci.edu has a variety of AI-related materials, with a special
focus on machine learning. The directory pub/machine-learning-databases
contains over 80 benchmark data sets for classifier systems (30mb).
Files may also be retrieved by email using the archive server
archive-server@ics.uci.edu. Commands to the server should be given
in the message body. Some commands are:
help
send <archive> <file>
find <archive> <string>
The help command replies with a useful help message.
Site Librarian: Patrick M. Murphy (ml-repository@ics.uci.edu)
Off-Site Assistant: David W. Aha (aha@cs.jhu.edu)
Machine Learning:
Various programs (e.g., ID3) and publications related to machine
learning are available by anonymous ftp from the machine
learning group (under Raymond Mooney) at UT-Austin, at
cs.utexas.edu:pub/mooney.
Subdirectories include
ml-course information and homeworks from a graduate course
in machine learning taught by Dr. Mooney. Homeworks
include "miniatures" of various machine learning
systems written in Common Lisp.
ml-code Common Lisp code corresponding to the assignments
for the course in the ml-course directory.
ml-progs More "research-level" versions of inductive
classification algorithms and software for automated
experiments that generation learning curves that
compare several systems.
papers Publications producted by the machine learning
research group.
Machine Learning Algorithms Implemented in Prolog:
In 1988 the Special Interest Group on Machine Learning of the German
Society for Computer Science (GI e.V.) decided to establish a library
of PROLOG implementations of Machine Learning algorithms. The library
includes - amongst others - PROLOG implementations of Winston's arch,
Becker's AQ-PROLOG, Fisher's COBWEB, Brazdil's generation of
discriminations from derivation trees, Quinlan's ID3, inverse
resolution, and Mitchell's version spaces algorithm. The programs are
currently available via anonymous ftp-server from the GMD:
ftp.gmd.de:/gmd/mlt/ML-Program-Library [129.26.8.90]
Send additional PROLOG implementations of Machine Learning
Algorithms, complaints about them and detected bugs or problems
to Thomas Hoppe, <hoppet@cs.tu-berlin.de>. Send suggestions and
complaints about the ftp library to Werner Emde, Gesellschaft
fuer Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung, Bonn, <emde@gmdzi.gmd.de>.
CMU Simulator Collection:
The CMU Simulator Collection is available by anonymous ftp from
ftp.cs.cmu.edu [128.2.206.173] in the directory
/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/connect/code/
The collection includes Lisp and C implementations of Scott
Fahlman's Cascade Correlation algorithm, Scott Fahlman's
Quickprop variation on the back-propagation algorithm, and Scott
Fahlman's Recurrent Cascade-Correlation simulator. The collection also
includes Aspririn/Migraines and Tesauro. The neural network benchmark
collection is available in
/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/connect/bench/
The data sets include the NETtalk data, a vowel recognition
task, and several others.
The archives of the connectionists mailing list are kept in
/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/connect/connect-archives/
along with a Lisp implementation of a backprop simulator.
Funic Neural FTP Archive Site:
The Finnish University maintains an archive site containing a large
collection of neural network papers and public domain software
gathered from FTP sites in the US. The files are available by
anonymous ftp from funic.funet.fi:/pub/sci/neural [128.214.6.100].
(Also know as ftp.funet.fi, nic.funet.fi.) See the file 01README for
details. A list of mirrored ftp sites is in 04Neural_FTP_Sites. For
further information, contact neural-adm@funic.funet.fi or Marko
Gronroos <magi@funic.funet.fi> (or <magi@utu.fi>).
OSU Neuroprose:
archive.cis.ohio-state.edu:/pub/neuroprose [128.146.8.52]
This directory contains technical reports as a public service to the
connectionist and neural network scientific community which has an
organized mailing list (for info: connectionists-request@cs.cmu.edu)
UKaiserslautern Neural/Fuzzy Repository:
The University of Kaiserslautern has set up a ftp server for reports
and software related to its neural networks and fuzzy logic projects,
including the MOBOT, SPIN, and ALBATROSS projects. Programs currently
available include Joerg Bruske's neural fuzzy decision system
SPIN-NFDS and Herman Keuchel's unsupervised clustering system. Most
of the ready-to-run programs were written for the Apple Macintosh.
Sources for the "kernel" of the programs are available by ftp, written
in Pascal. The user-interface code is also available upon request.
Some of the documentation is in German. The papers and software are
available from ag_vp_file_server.informatik.uni-kl.de in the
directories Neural_Networks/Reports/ and Neural_Networks/Software/.
Some papers and software are also available from ftp.uni-kl.de in the
directory reports_uni-kl/computer_science/mobile_robots/. For further
information, contact Uwe R. Zimmer <uzimmer@informatik.uni-kl.de>.
NL Software Registry:
The Natural Language Software Registry is a catalogue of software
implementing core natural language processing techniques, whether
available on a commercial or noncommercial basis. Some of the topics
listed include speech signal processing, morphological analysis,
parsers, and knowledge representation systems. The catalogue is
available from the German Research Institute for Artificial
Intelligence (DFKI) in Saarbruecken (Germany) by anonymous ftp to
ftp.dfki.uni-sb.de:registry/, email to registry@dfki.uni-sb.de, or
physical mail to NL Software Registry, Deutsches Forschungszentrum
fuer Kuenstliche Intelligenz, Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, D-W-6600
Saarbruecken, Germany, or by telephone to +49 (681) 303-5282.
Miscellaneous AI:
Some miscellaneous AI programs may be found on ftp.uu.net:/pub/ai
Most are mirrors of programs available at other sites.
AI_ATTIC is an anonymous ftp collection of classic AI programs and
other information maintained by the University of Texas at Austin. It
includes Parry, Adventure, Shrdlu, Doctor, Eliza, Animals, Trek, Zork,
Babbler, Jive, and some AI-related programming languages. This
archive is available by anonymous ftp from ftp.cc.utexas.edu
(bongo.cc.utexas.edu, 128.83.186.13) in the directory /pub/AI_ATTIC.
For more information, contact atticmaster@bongo.cc.utexas.edu.
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Subject: [4-2a] FTP and Other Resources: Agents -- Planning
In addition to programs available free by anonymous ftp, we've
included some programs which are available by contacting the authors,
and some programs which charge a nominal fee.
Agent Modelling:
ANIMALS is a simulation system written by Toby Tyrrell,
<toby@castle.ed.ac.uk>, for his PhD thesis. The thesis examines the
problem of action selection when dealing with realistic, animal-like
situations: how to choose, at each moment in time, the most
appropriate out of a repertoire of possible actions. It includes a
description is given of a simulated environment which is an extensive
and detailed simulation of the problem of action selection for
animals. This simulated environment is used to investigate the
adequacy of several theories of action selection (from both ethology
and artificial intelligence) such as the drive model, Lorenz's
psycho-hydraulic model and Maes' spreading activation network, and
outlines deficiencies in each mechanism. Finally, it proposes a new
approach to action selection is developed which determines the most
appropriate action in a principled way, and which does not suffer from
the inherent shortcomings found in other methods. The thesis includes
a review and bibliography of existing work on action selection. The
thesis is available by anonymous ftp from ftp.ed.ac.uk:pub/lrtt/
[129.215.146.5] as the files as.1.ps.Z, as.2.ps.Z, ..., and as.7.ps.Z.
The simulation software is also available from the same site, as the
file se.tar.Z. The simulation software was written in Suntools rather
than Xtools. It can be run only from SunView or OpenWindows. The
action selection problem modelled by the simulated environment
comprises 15 different `sub-problems' (getting food, reproducing, not
getting lost, being vigilant for predators, etc), many internal and
external stimuli, and 35 different low-level actions to select
between.
ViewGen (Viewpoint Generator) is a Prolog program that implements a
"Belief Ascription Algorithm" as described in Ballim and Wilks (see the
bibliography section on User Modelling). This can be seen as a form of
agent modelling tool, which allows for the generation of arbitrarily deep
nested belief spaces based on the system's own beliefs, and on beliefs
that are typically held by groups of agents. ViewGen is available by
anonymous ftp from
crl.nmsu.edu:pub/ViewFinder [128.123.1.18] (user anonymous)
ftp.ims.uni-stuttgart.de:pub/ballim [141.58.127.8] (user ftp)
as the file ViewGen.tar.Z. The theory of belief ascription upon which
it is based is described in detail in Ballim and Wilks, and a general
framework for attributing and maintaining nested propositional
attitudes is described in Afzal Ballim's dissertation which is
archived with the Viewgen program (in the files
ViewFinder-{A4/A5/US}.tar.Z,
the variable part indicating the format of the PostScript file).
The inheritance reasoner is in the file vf-hetis.tar.Z.
Implemented in Sicstus prolog, and hence easily convertible to
any Edinburgh-style prolog. Contact Afzal Ballim <afzal@divsun.unige.ch>
for more information.
Analogical Reasoning:
SME -- multivac.ils.nwu.edu:pub/SME
Contact: Brian Falkenhainer <falkenhainer@parc.xerox.com>
Ken Forbus <forbus@ils.nwu.edu>
the Structure-Mapping Engine, as described in Falkenhainer,
Forbus, and Gentner's 1987 AIJ article.
Artificial Life:
Tierra is an artificial life system for studying the evolution of digital
organisms. Tierra runs in Unix and MS-DOS. Source code and documentation
is available by anonymous ftp at tierra.slhs.udel.edu (128.175.41.34) and
life.slhs.udel.edu (128.175.41.33) in the directories almond/, beagle/,
doc/, and tierra/. To be added to either the tierra-announce (official
announcements only) or tierra-digest (moderated discussion plus
announcements) mailing lists, send mail to
tierra-request@life.slhs.udel.edu. Send bug reports to
tierra-bug@life.slhs.udel.edu. Written by Tom Ray, <ray@life.slhs.udel.edu>.
Blackboard Architectures:
GBB (PD Version) -- dime.cs.umass.edu:/gbb
GEST -- Contact: Susan Coryell <scoryell@gtri01.gatech.edu>
Blackboard system. Runs on Symbolics and SUN.
Georgia Tech's Generic Expert System Tool (GEST)
Available to academic institutions for classroom use.
The symbolics version of GEST is available free from
ftp.gatech.edu:pub/ai/gest.tar.Z
Contact: John F. Gilmore jg10@prism.gatech.edu
Case-based Reasoning:
CL-Protos -- cs.utexas.edu:/pub/porter
Contact: Bruce W. Porter <porter@cs.utexas.edu>
Ray Bareiss <bareiss@ils.nwu.edu>
Erik Eilerts <eilerts@cs.utexas.edu>
Dan Dvorak
MICRO-xxx -- cs.umd.edu:/pub/schank/icbr
Contact: waander@cs.umd.edu
The directory pub/schank/icbr contains the complete
code for "Inside Case-Based Reasoning" by
Riesbeck and Schank, 1989. This includes code
for an instructional version of CHEF by Kristian Hammond.
Chess:
The SAN Kit chess programming C source toolkit provides common routines
for move notation I/O, move generation, move execution, etc. Only search
routines and an evaluation function need be added to obtain a working
chess program. It runs on Apple Macintosh (Think C 5.0),
Commodore Amiga (SAS C), MS-DOS, and Unix. It is available by
anonymous ftp from raven.alaska.edu [137.229.10.39] in the
directory pub/coherent/sources32/ as the compressed tar file SAN.tar.Z.
Contact Steven J. Edwards, sje@world.std.com for more information.
valkyries.andrew.cmu.edu:pub/misc/chess [128.2.232.4]
This site has the SCP package, a restructured ANSI C port of
the 1987 Stanback Chess Program.
Constraint Programming and Non-determinism:
SCREAMER:
Screamer is an extension of Common Lisp that adds support for
nondeterministic programming. Screamer consists of two levels. The
basic nondeterministic level adds support for backtracking and
undoable side effects. On top of this nondeterministic substrate,
Screamer provides a comprehensive constraint programming language in
which one can formulate and solve mixed systems of numeric and
symbolic constraints. Together, these two levels augment Common Lisp
with practically all of the functionality of both Prolog and
constraint logic programming languages such as CHiP and CLP(R).
Furthermore, Screamer is fully integrated with Common Lisp. Screamer
programs can coexist and interoperate with other extensions to Common
Lisp such as CLOS, CLIM and Iterate.
In several ways Screamer is more efficient than other implementations
of backtracking languages. First, Screamer code is transformed into
Common Lisp which can be compiled by the underlying Common Lisp
system. Many competing implementations of nondeterministic Lisp are
interpreters and thus are far less efficient than Screamer. Second,
the backtracking primitives require fairly low overhead in Screamer.
Finally, this overhead to support backtracking is only paid for those
portions of the program which use the backtracking primitives.
Deterministic portions of user programs pass through the Screamer to
Common Lisp transformation unchanged. Since in practise, only small
portions of typical programs utilize the backtracking primitives,
Screamer can produce more efficient code than compilers for languages
in which backtracking is more pervasive.
Screamer is fairly portable across most Common Lisp implementations.
It currently runs under Genera 8.1.1 and 8.3 on both Symbolics 36xx
and Ivory machines, under Lucid 4.0.2 and 4.1 on Sun SPARC machines,
under MCL 2.0 and 2.0p2 on Apple Macintosh machines, and under Poplog
Common Lisp on Sun SPARC machines. It should run under any
implementation of Common Lisp which is compliant with CLtL2 and with
minor revision could be made to run under implementations compliant
with CLtL1 or dpANS.
Screamer is available by anonymous FTP from ftp.ai.mit.edu as the file
/pub/screamer.tar.Z. Contact Jeffrey Mark Siskind <qobi@ai.mit.edu> for
further information.
Eliza and Similar Programs:
The software from Peter Norvig's book "Paradigms of AI Programming" is
available by anonymous ftp from unix.sri.com:pub/norvig and on disk in
Macintosh or DOS format from the publisher, Morgan Kaufmann. The
software includes Common Lisp implementations of: Eliza and pattern
matchers, Emycin, Othello, Parsers, Scheme interpreters and compilers,
Unification and a prolog interpreter and compiler, Waltz
line-labelling, implementation of GPS, macsyma, and random number
generators. For more information, write to Morgan Kaufmann, Dept. P1,
2929 Campus Drive, Suite 260, San Mateo CA 94403, call 800-745-7323,
or fax 415-578-0672. (Mac ISBN 1-55860-227-5; DOS 3.5" ISBN
1-55860-228-3; or DOS 5.25" ISBN 1-55860-229-1).
The doctor.el is an implementation of Eliza for GNU-Emacs
emacs-lisp. Invoke it with "Meta-X doctor".
Source code for ELIZA in Prolog (implemented by Viren
Patel) is available by ftp from aisun1.ai.uga.edu.
muLISP-87 (a MSDOS Lisp sold by Soft Warehouse) includes
a Lisp implementation of Eliza.
Compute!'s Gazette, June 1984, includes source for a BASIC
implementation of Eliza. You can also find it in 101 more computer
games, edited by David Ahl, published by Creative Computing (alas,
they're defunct, and the book is out of print).
Herbert Schildt "Artificial Intelligence using C", McGraw-Hill, 1987,
ISBN 0-07-881255-0, pp315-338, includes a simple version of DOCTOR.
ucsd.edu:pub/pc-ai contains implementations of Eliza for the IBM PC.
The original Parry (in MLISP for a PDP-10) is available in
labrea.stanford.edu:/pub/parry.tar.Z.
RACTER is *not* public domain. It costs $50 for MS-DOS and Macintosh
versions, the Inrac compiler is $200 (MS-DOS only), and the Inrac
manual alone is $25. Racter is available from John Owens, INRAC
Corp./Nickers International Ltd., 12 Schubert Street, Staten Island,
NY 10305, Tel: 718-448-6283, or Fax: 718-448-6298. Racter was
published in 1984, and written in compiled BASIC. To read some of
RACTER's work, see "The Policeman's Beard is Half Constructed",
Computer Prose and Poetry by Racter, Warner Books, 1984. ISBN
0-446-38051-2 (paperback). Written by William Chamberlain and Thomas
Etter. Some discussion of RACTER appears in A.K. Dewdney's book, "The
Armchair Universe". The Macintosh version runs only on SEs and Pluses
(it comes on a single-sided 400k copy-protected disk, with an old
version of the system).
Expert Systems:
Free ftpable expert system shells are listed in [6-3].
Frame Systems:
FrameWork -- ftp.cs.cmu.edu:user/ai/software/kr/frames/framework/
Theo -- Contact: Tom.Mitchell@cs.cmu.edu
FrameKit -- Contact: Eric.Nyberg@cs.cmu.edu
KR -- Contact: Brad.Myers@cs.cmu.edu
PARKA -- Contact: spector@cs.umd.edu
Frames for the CM
PARMENIDES (Frulekit) -- Contact: Peter.Shell@cs.cmu.edu
FROBS -- cs.utah.edu:/pub/frobs.tar.Z
Contact: Robert Kessler <kessler@cs.utah.edu>
PFC -- linc.cis.upenn.edu:
YAK -- Contact: Enrico Franconi <franconi@irst.it>
Fuzzy Logic:
FLIE -- ural.ethz.ch:/robo/flie [129.132.104.194]
Contact: vestli@ifr.ethz.ch
Fuzzy Logic Inference Engine, Institute of Robotics, ETH.
Game Playing:
METAGAME is a game-playing workbench for developing and playing
metagame programs. It includes a generator for symmetric chess-like
games; definitions of chess, checkers, chinese chess, shogi, lose
chess, lose checkers, french checkers, and tic tac toe translated into
symmetric chess-like games; a legal move generator; and a variety of
player programs, from simple through sophisticated. The METAGAME
Workbench runs in Quintus or Sictus Prolog. Available by anonymous
ftp from ftp.cl.cam.ac.uk [128.232.0.56] in users/bdp/metagame.tar.Z.
For more information, contact Barney Pell <bdp@cl.cam.ac.uk> of the
University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory.
Genetic Algorithms:
SCS (Simple Classifier System) is a C port of the system from
Appendix D of "Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization, and Machine
Learning" by David E. Goldberg. It was ported to C by Erik Mayer
<emayer@uoft02.utoledo.edu>. For more information, contact the author.
SCS-C is another port to C of Goldberg's Simple Classifier System.
It includes some extensions, and runs on Sun 10/30 and Atari ST. SCS-C
is available via anonymous ftp as scs-c-0.98j.tar.Z from
lumpi.informatik.uni-dortmund.de:/pub/LCS/src/ [129.217.36.140]. The
documentation alone is available as scs-c-doc.tar.Z in the directory
/pub/LCS/docs/. For more information, contact Joerg Heitkoetter
<joke@ls11.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>, c/o Systems Analysis Group,
LSXI, Department of Computer Science, University of Dortmund, D-44221
Dortmund, Germany.
GENITOR is available by anonymous ftp from the Colorado State
University Computer Science Department in
beethoven.cs.colostate.edu:pub/GENITOR.tar [129.82.102.183]
For further information, contact starkwea@cs.colostate.edu or
mathiask@cs.colostate.edu. If these fail to work, contact
whitley@cs.colostate.edu.
Other packages are described in detail in Nici Schraudolph's survey
of free and commercial GA software (see the Genetic Algorithms
Repository in [4-1]). Some of the free ones from Nici's list are
summarized below. Many are available from the GA Repository.
GAucsd Genetic algorithms software
cs.ucsd.edu:/pub/GAucsd/GAucsd14.ps.Z [132.239.51.3]
Nici Schraudolph <nici@cs.ucsd.edu>
To be put on a mailing list of GAucsd users, send
the message "add GAucsd" to listserv@cs.ucsd.edu.
GAbench Genetic algorithms benchmarks and test problems
cs.ucsd.edu:/pub/GAbench/
Thomas Kammeyer (tkammeye@cs.ucsd.edu)
EM Evolution Machine (EM)
ftp-bionik.fb10.tu-berlin.de:pub/software/Evolution-Machine/
[130.149.192.50]
em_tc.exe (EM for Turbo C)
em_tcp.exe (EM for Turbo C++)
em_man.exe (the manual)
Joachim Born <born@max.fb10.tu-berlin.de>
Genie GA-based modeling/forecasting system
Lance Chambers <P_Stampoul@fennel.cc.uwa.oz.au>
GENOCOP GEnetic algorithm for Numerical Optimization for
COnstrained Problems. Optimizes function with any
number of linear constraints (equalities and inequalities)
Genetic-2 Optimization package for the linear transportation problem.
Genetic-2N Optimization package for the nonlinear transportation problem.
All three were developed by Zbigniew Michalewicz and are
described in detail in his book "Genetic Algorithms + Data
Structures = Evolution Programs", Springer Verlag,
August 1992.
unccsun.uncc.edu:coe/evol/ [152.15.10.88]
(also known as ftp.uncc.edu)
Zbigniew Michalewicz <zbyszek@unccvax.uncc.edu>
WOLF Simulator for G/SPLINES algorithm (genetic spline models)
David Rogers <drogers@riacs.edu>
GAC, GAL GA written in C/Lisp. Similar to John Grefenstette's Genesis.
Bill Spears <spears@aic.nrl.navy.mil>
ESCaPaDE Experiments with evolutionary algorithsm.
Frank Hoffmeister <iwan@ls11.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
(Send mail with subject line "help" or "get ESCaPaDE")
mGA1.0 Common Lisp implementation of a messy GA as described in
TCGA report 90004.
SGA-C C-language port and extension of the original Pascal
SGA code presented in Goldberg's book "Genetic
Algorithms in Search, Optimization & Machine
Learning", Addison Wesley, 1989. See TCGA report 91002.
SGA-Cube Goldberg's SGA code modified for nCUBE 2 hypercube
parallel computer.
All three are available by e-mail from
Robert Elliott Smith <rob@comec4.mh.ua.edu>.
BUGS Demonstrates genetic algorithms.
santafe.edu:pub/misc/BUGS/
Joshua Smith <jrs@santafe.edu>
SGPC Simple Genetic Programming in C
sfi.santafe.edu:pub/Users/tackett/
Walter Alden Tackett and Aviram Carmi (gpc@ipld01.hac.com)
GENEsYs lumpi.informatik.uni-dortmund.de:pub/GA/src/ [129.217.36.140]
Use "ftp" as user name, e-mail address as password.
Thomas Baeck <baeck@ls11.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
GAGA Jon Crowcroft <jon@cs.ucl.ac.uk>. cs.ucl.ac.uk:darpa/gaga.shar
Splicer Steve Bayer <bayer@galileo.jsc.nasa.gov>
PARAGENESIS GA-Repository/e-mail Michael van Lent <vanlent@cs.utk.edu>
GENESIS GA-Repository/e-mail John Grefenstette <gref@aic.nrl.navy.mil>
OOGA GA-Repository/e-mail John Grefenstette <gref@aic.nrl.navy.mil>
DGENESIS Erick Cantu <ecantu@babbage.rhon.itam.mx> or
<ecantu@itamvms1.bitnet>.
PGA Parallel Genetic Algorithms testbed
ftp.dai.ed.ac.uk:pub/pga-2.4/pga-2.4.tar.Z (192.41.104.152)
Peter Ross, peter@aisb.ed.ac.uk
ICOT:
Japan's Institute for New Generation Computer Technology (ICOT) has
made their software available to the public free of charge. The
collection includes a variety of prolog-based programs in symbol
processing, knowledge representation, reasoning and problem solving,
natural language processing. All programs are available by anonymous
ftp from ftp.icot.or.jp. Note that most of the programs are written
for the PSI machines, and very few have been ported to Unix-based
emulators. For further information, send email to ifs@icot.or.jp, or
write to ICOT Free Software Desk, Institute for New Generation
Computer Technology, 21st Floor, Mita Kokusai Bldg., 4-28, Mita
1-chome, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108, Japan, fax +81-3-4456-1618.
Knowledge Representation:
KNOWBEL -- ai.toronto.edu:/pub/kr/{knowbel.tar.Z,manual.txt.tar.Z}
Contact: Bryan M. Kramer, <kramer@ai.toronto.edu>
Telos temporal/sorted logic system.
SB-ONE -- Contact: kobsa@inf-wiss.uni-konstanz.de
KL-ONE family. Currently undergoing revision and will be
renamed KN-PART+.
KRIS -- Contact: baader@dfki.uni-kl.de
KL-ONE family (Symbolics only)
BACK -- Contact: back@cs.tu-berlin.de
ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de:pub/doc/reports/tu-berlin.de/kit/Back52
Files are BACK_V52.intro and Back52.tar.Z
Tar file includes Tutorial/Manual in postscript format
and installation instructions.
KL-ONE family
CLASSIC -- Contact: dlm@research.att.com
KL-ONE family
MOTEL -- Contact: hustadt@mpi-sb.mpg.de
mpi-sb.mpg.de:/pub/tools/motel.tar.Z [139.19.1.1]
Modal KL-ONE (contains KRIS as a kernel).
Implemented in Prolog.
FOL GETFOL -- Contact: fausto@irst.it
Weyrauch's FOL system
COLAB/RELFUN -- Contact: boley@informatik.uni-kl.de
Logic Programming
COLAB/FORWARD -- Contact: hinkelma@dfki.uni-kl.de
Logic Programming
COLAB/CONTAX -- Contact: meyer@dfki.uni-kl.de
Constraint System for Weighted Constraints over
Hierarchically Structured Finite Domains.
COLAB/TAXON -- Contact: hanschke@dfki.uni-kl.de
Terminological Knowl. Rep. w/Concrete Domains
SNePS (Semantic Network Processing System) is the implementation of a
fully intensional theory of propositional knowledge representation and
reasoning. SNePS includes a module for creating and accessing
propositional semantic networks, path-based inference, node-based
inference based on SWM (a relevance logic with quantification) that
uses natural deduction and can deal with recursive rules, forward,
backward and bi-directional inference, nonstandard logical connectives
and quantifiers, an assumption based TMS for belief revision, a
morphological analyzer and a generalized ATN (GATN) parser for parsing
and generating natural language, SNePSLOG, a predicate-logic-style
interface to SNePS, XGinseng, an X-based graphics interface for
displaying, creating and editing SNePS networks, SNACTor, a
preliminary version of the SNePS Acting component, and SNIP 2.2, a new
implementation of the SNePS Inference Package that uses rule shadowing
and knowledge migration to speed up inference. SNeRE (the SNePS
Rational Engine), which is part of Deepak Kumar's dissertation about
the integration of inference and acting, will replace the current
implementation of SNACTor. SNePS is written in Common Lisp, and has
been tested in Allegro CL 4.1, Lucid CL 4.0, TI Common Lisp, CLISP
May-93, and CMU CL 17b. It should also run in Symbolics CL, AKCL 1.600
and higher, VAX Common Lisp, and MCL. The XGinseng interface is built
on top of Garnet. SNePS 2.1 is free according to the GNU General
Public License version 2. The SNePS distribution is available by
anonymous ftp from
ftp.cs.buffalo.edu:/pub/sneps/ [128.205.32.9]
as the file rel-x-yyy.tar.Z, where 'x-yyy' is the version. The other
files in the directory are included in the distribution; they are
duplicated to let you get them without unpacking the full distribution
if you just want the bibliography or manual. If you use SNePS, please
send a short message to shapiro@cs.buffalo.edu and
snwiz@cs.buffalo.edu. Please also let them know whether you'd like to
be added to the SNUG (SNePS Users Group) mailing list.
URANUS is a logic-based knowledge representation language. Uranus is
an extension of Prolog written in Common Lisp and using the syntax of
Lisp. Uranus extends Prolog with a multiple world mechanism for
knowledge representation and term descriptions to provide
functional programming within the framework of logic programming.
It is available free by anonymous ftp from
etlport.etl.go.jp:pub/uranus/ftp/ [192.31.197.99]
for research purposes only. For more information contact the author,
Hideyuki Nakashima <nakashim@etl.go.jp>.
Machine Learning:
COBWEB/3 -- Contact: cobweb@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov
IND -- Contact: NASA COSMIC, <service@cossack.cosmic.uga.edu>
Tel: 706-542-3265 (ask for customer support)
Fax: 706-542-4807
IND is a C program for the creation and manipulation of
decision trees from data, integrating the CART,
ID3/C4.5, Buntine's smoothing and option trees, Wallace
and Patrick's MML method, and Oliver and Wallace's MML
decision graphs which extend the tree representation to
graphs. Written by Wray Buntine, <wray@kronos.arc.nasa.gov>.
AUTOCLASS -- Contact: taylor@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov
AutoClass is an unsupervised Bayesian classification system for
independent data.
FOIL -- ftp.cs.su.oz.au:pub/{foil4.sh,foil5.sh} [129.78.8.208]
Each shell archive contains source, a brief manual,
and several sample datasets. FOIL2 should be available
from sumex-aim.stanford.edu:/pub/FOIL.sh.
RWM -- Contact: H. Altay Guvenir <guvenir@trbilun.bitnet>
RWM is a program for learning problem solving strategies,
written in Common Lisp (tested on Suns and NeXT).
MOBAL -- See [6-3].
PEBLS (Parallel Exemplar-Based Learning System) is a nearest-neighbor
learning system designed for applications where the instances have
symbolic feature values. PEBLS has been applied to the prediction of
protein secondary structure and to the identification of DNA promoter
sequences. PEBLS 2.0 is written in ANSI C and is available by
anonymous ftp from blaze.cs.jhu.edu:pub/pebls/pebls.tar.Z
[128.220.13.50] for research purposes only. For more information,
contact Steven Salzberg <salzberg@cs.jhu.edu>.
Mathematics:
SymbMath is a "symbolic calculator that can solve symbolic math
problems" written by Weiguang Huang <w.huang@unsw.edu.au>. It runs on
IBM PCs (8086) under MS-DOS. Shareware versions are available by
anonymous ftp from wsmr-simtel20.army.mil:/calculator/sm22a.zip or
rana.cc.deakin.oz.au:/huang/sm22a.zip or by e-mail from
listserv@vm1.nodak.edu (listserv@ndsuvm1.bitnet).
Medical Reasoning:
TMYCIN -- sumex-aix.stanford.edu:/tmycin
Natural Language Processing:
YACC -- ftp.cs.cmu.edu:user/ai/lang/lisp/lisp/parse/johnson-yacc.lisp
Contact: Mark Johnson <mj@cs.brown.edu>
Lisp YACC/Parser.
BABBLER -- Contact: rsf1@ra.msstate.edu
Markov chains/NLP
PENMAN -- Contact: hovy@isi.edu
Natural Language Generation.
PC-KIMMO -- msdos.archive.umich.edu:/msdos/linguistics/pckim105.zip
An implementation of KIMMO morphological analyzer
for the IBM PC.
FUF -- Contact: elhadad@bengus.bgu.ac.il
cs.columbia.edu: or
ftp: black.bgu.ac.il:/pub/fuf/fuf5.2.tar.Z
cs.columbia.edu:pub/fuf/fuf5.2.tar.Z
Natural language generation system based on
Functional Unification Grammars.
Includes unifier, large grammar of English (surge)
user manual and many examples. Written in Common Lisp.
InterBASE -- Contact: Sergei Kuchin <kuchin@darmstadt.gmd.de>
ftp: files interbas.exe, interba1.exe, interbas.txt on
sics.se:/pub/packet-incoming
ftp.uu.net:/tmp
clr.nmsu.edu:/incoming
debra.dgbt.doc.ca:/pub/incoming
Natural language database front end
RegEx -- csd4.csd.uwm.edu:/pub/compilers/regex/
Translates regular expressions to DFAs. Written in C.
Mark Hopkins <markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu>
Tom -- csd4.csd.uwm.edu:/pub/compilers/tomita/
C implementation of the Tomita parsing algorithm
Mark Hopkins <markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu>
Common Lisp versions of the miniature natural language understanding
programs from "Inside Computer Understanding" by Schank and Riesbeck,
1981, are available by anonymous ftp from cs.umd.edu in the directory
pub/schank/icu. This includes the SAM and ELI miniatures. It will
eventually include copies of the miniature versions of PAM, POLITICS,
and Tale-Spin. The FOR macro is also available in this directory, as
are a set of functions for manipulating and matching lisp
representations of Conceptual Dependency formulas. Contact Bill
Andersen <waander@cs.umd.edu> for more information.
The Link Parser is a highly efficient English parser written by Danny
Sleator and Davy Temperley. It uses a novel grammatical formalism known
as Link Grammar to represent a robust and diverse collection of
English-language phenomena. The system is available by anonymous ftp from
spade.pc.cs.cmu.edu in the directory /usr/sleator/public/. Read the
README file for more information. To see an online demo of the parser, do
telnet spade.pc.cs.cmu.edu 4000
The Xerox part-of-speech tagger is available by anonymous ftp from
parcftp.xerox.com:pub/tagger/tagger-1-0.tar.Z. It is implemented in
Common Lisp and has been tested in Allegro CL 4.1, CMU CL 16e, and
Macintosh CL 2.0p2. For more information, contact the authors, Doug
Cutting <cutting@parc.xerox.com>, and Jan Pedersen
<pedersen@parc.xerox.com>.
The Prolog and DCG programs from Pereira and Shieber's book, "Prolog
and Natural Language Analysis", are available by anonymous ftp from
das.harvard.edu:pub/shieber/pnla/. See the file README for the
conditions under which the material is distributed. If you retrieve
the files, please send an email message to the authors letting them
know how you plan to use them. For further information, write to
Fernando Pereira <pereira@research.att.com> or Stuart Shieber
<shieber@das.harvard.edu>.
Neural Networks:
Aspirin/MIGRAINES is a neural network simulator available free from the
MITRE Corporation. It contains a neural network simulation code generator
which generates high performance C code implementations for
backpropagation networks. It runs on the following platforms: Apollo,
Convex, Cray, DecStation, HP, IBM RS/6000, Intel 486/386 (Unix System V),
NeXT, News, Silicon Graphics Iris, Sun3, Sun4, Mercury i860 (40MHz)
Coprocessors, Meiko Computing Surface w/i860 (40MHz) Nodes, Skystation
i860 (40MHz) Coprocessors, and iWarp Cells. The software is available by
anonymous ftp from the CMU simulator collection on pt.cs.cmu.edu
(128.2.254.155) in the directory /afs/cs/project/connect/code (you must
cd to this directory in one atomic operation) and UCLA's cognitive
science collection on ftp.cognet.ucla.edu [128.97.8.19] in the
directory alexis as the file am6.tar.Z, am6.readme, am6.notes. They
include many examples in the release, include an implementation of NETtalk.
For more information, contact Russell Leighton <taylor@world.std.com>
or <leighton@mitre.org>. [As of 7/7/93, the mitre email address bounced.]
MUME (Multi-Module Neural Computing Environment) is a simulation
environment for multi-modules neural computing. It provides an object
oriented facility for the simulation and training of multiple nets
with various architectures and learning algorithms. The object
oriented structure makes simple the addition of new network classes
and new learning algorithms. _ MUME includes a library of network
architectures including feedforward, simple recurrent, and
continuously running recurrent neural networks. Each architecture is
supported by a variety of learning algorithms, including backprop,
weight perturbation, node perturbation, and simulated annealing. MUME
can be used for large scale neural network simulations as it provides
support for learning in multi-net environments. It also provide pre-
and post-processing facilities. MUME can be used to include
non-neural computing modules (decision trees, etc.) in applications. _
MUME is being developed at the Machine Intelligence Group at Sydney
University Electrical Engineering. The software is written in 'C' and
is being used on Sun and DEC workstations. Efforts are underway to
port it to the Fujitsu VP2200 vector processor using the VCC
vectorising C compiler, HP 9000/700, SGI workstations, DEC
Alphas, and PC DOS (with DJGCC). MUME is available to research
institutions on a media/doc/postage cost arrangement after
signing a license agreement. The license agreement is available by
anonymous ftp from 129.78.13.39:/pub/license.ps. An overview of mume
is available from the same machine as /pub/mume-overview.ps.Z. It is
also available free for MSDOS by anonymous ftp from
brutus.ee.su.oz.au:/pub/MUME-0.5-DOS.zip
For further information, write to Marwan Jabri, SEDAL, Sydney
University Electrical Engineering, NSW 2006 Australia,
call +61-2-692-2240, fax +61-2-660-1228, or send email to
Marwan Jabri <marwan@sedal.su.oz.au>. To be added to the mailing
list, send email to mume-request@sedal.su.oz.au.
Adaptive Logic Network (ALN)
The atree adapative logic network simulation package is available by
anonymous ftp from ftp.cs.ualberta.ca [129.128.4.241] in
pub/atree/atree2.tar.Z (Unix). The MS-Windows 3.x version for the IBM PC
is available as either pub/atree/atre27.exe (includes C/C++ sources)
or pub/atree/a27exe.exe (just the executables). The PC version has
a lot more documentation than the Unix version. The Unix version has
been ported to the Macintosh, Amiga, and other machines.
Documentation is in pub/atree/atree2.ps.Z. Also in this directory is a
rather impressive OCR demo using atree. To be added to the mailing
list, send email to alnl-request@cs.ualberta.ca. For more information,
contact William W. Armstrong, <arms@cs.ualberta.ca>.
BPS
Neural network simulator. Other files of interest. Executables are
free; source code for a small fee.
gmuvax2.gmu.edu:nn [no longer there?]
NeuralShell
Availible by anonymous ftp from quanta.eng.ohio-state.edu [128.146.35.1]
in the directory pub/NeuralShell/ as the file NeuralShell.tar.
CONDELA
A neural network definition language.
tut.cis.ohio-state.edu:/pub/condela
ROCHESTER CONNECTIONIST SIMULATOR
Available from cs.rochester.edu:pub/simulator [192.5.53.209].
Includes a backprop package and an X11/SunView interface.
UCLA-SFINX
retina.cs.ucla.edu:pub/sfinx_v2.0.tar.Z [131.179.16.6]
Username sfinxftp, password joshua. Contact sfinx@retina.cs.ucla.edu
for more information.
XERION
A neural network simulator from Drew van Camp at the University
of Toronto. It provides a library of routines for building networks
and graphically displaying them. Written in C and uses the X window
system for graphics. Example simulators include Back Propagation,
Recurrent Back Propagation, Boltzmann Machine, Mean Field Theory, Free
Energy Manipulation, Kohonnen Net, and Hard and Soft Competitive
Learning. Xerion runs on SGI Personal Iris, SGI 4d, Sun3 (SunOS), Sun4
(SunOS). Available by anonymous ftp from ai.toronto.edu:/pub/xerion.
See the file /pub/xerion.README for more information. Also included
is a little program called sciam that contains the basic kernel that
was published in the September 1992 issue of Scientific American.
To be added to the mailing list, send mail to xerion-request@ai.toronto.edu.
Bugs should be reported to xerion-bugs@ai.toronto.edu. Complaints,
suggestions or comments may be sent to xerion@ai.toronto.edu.
SNNS (Stuttgart Neural Network Simulator) is a software simulator for
neural networks on Unix workstations developed at the Institute for
Parallel and Distributed High Performance Systems (IPVR) at the
University of Stuttgart. The SNNS simulator contains a simultor kernel
written in ANSI C and a 2D/3D graphical user interface running under
X11R4/X11R5. It runs under Sun Sparc (SLC, ELC, SS2, GX, GS), DECstation
(2100, 3100, 5000/200), IBM RS 6000, HP 9000, and IBM-PC (386/486). SNNS
includes the following learning procedures: backpropagation (online,
batch, with momentum and flat spot elimin., time delay),
counterpropagation, quickprop, backpercolation 1, and generalized radial
basis functions (RBF), RProp, recurrent ART1, ART2 and ARTMAP, Cascade
Correlation and Recurrent Cascade Correlation, Dynamic LVQ, and Time
delay networks (TDNN). (Elman networks and some other network paradigms
have already been implemented but are scheduled for a later release.)
The SNNS simulator can be obtained via anonymous ftp from
ftp.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de:/pub/SNNS/SNNSv2.1.tar.Z [129.69.211.2].
The PostScript version of the user manual can be obtained as file
SNNSv2.1.Manual.ps.Z. To be added to the mailing list, send a message
to listserv@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de with "subscribe snns <Your Full
Name>" in the message body. Submissions may be sent to
snns@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de. For further information, contact
Andreas Zell, <zell@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>.
NEOCOGNITRON SIMULATOR
The Neocognitron Simulator is written in C and is available by
anonymous ftp from
tamsun.tamu.edu:/pub/neocognitron.Z.tar [128.194.15.32]
unix.hensa.ac.uk:/pub/uunet/pub/ai/neural/neocognitron.tar.Z
[129.12.21.7]
PLANET (aka SunNet)
Simulator that runs under X Windows. Written by Yoshiro Miyata
<miyata@sccs.chukyo-u.ac.jp> of Chukyo University, Japan.
Available by anonymous ftp from
tutserver.tut.ac.jp:pub/misc/PlaNet5.7.tar.Z [133.15.64.6]
boulder.colorado.edu:pub/generic-sources/PlaNet5.7.tar.Z [128.138.240.1]
Includes documentation.
LVQ_PAK and SOM_PAK
LVQ_PAK (Learning Vector Quantization) and SOM_PAK (Self-Organizing Maps)
were written by the LVQ/SOM Programming Team of the Helsinki
University of Technology, Laboratory of Computer and Information
Science, Rakentajanaukio 2 C, SF-02150 Espoo, FINLAND. The PAKs
run in Unix and MS-DOS systems. Available by anonymous ftp from
cochlea.hut.fi [130.233.168.48] in the directories /pub/lvq_pak/
and /pub/som_pak/.
MACTIVATION
bruno.cs.colorado.edu:/pub/cs/misc/ [128.138.243.151]
as the file Mactivation-3.3.sea.hqx.
DartNet
A Macintosh-based Neural Network Simulator with a nice graphical
interface. Available by anonymous ftp from
dartvax.dartmouth.edu:/pub/mac/dartnet.sit.hqx [129.170.16.4]
or by email from bharucha@dartmouth.edu. New network architectures
and learning algorithms can be added to the system by writing small
XCMD-like CODE resources called nDEF's ("Network Definitions"). For
more information, send email to Sean P. Nolan,
<sean@coos.dartmouth.edu>. [As of 7/7/93, email bounced.]
NevProp is a C implementation of general purpose backpropagation
software, based on Quickprop 1.0 by Scott Fahlman, as translated from
Common Lisp into C by Terry Regier. It runs on Unix, Macintosh, and
DOS. The quickprop algorithm itself has not changed substantially, but
it now includes options to force gradient descent (per-epoch or
per-pattern), generalization & stopped training, c index, and interface
enhancements. It is available by anonymous ftp from unssun.scs.unr.edu
[134.197.10.128] pub/goodman/nevpropdir/ as the file npxxx.shar
(replace xxx with the version number) or from the CMU Simulator Collection.
For further information, contact Phil Goodman <goodman@unr.edu>.
TCS (Tasmanian Connectionist Simulator) is a neural network
simulation package written in Borland C++ for Windows available by
anonymous ftp from
ftp.psychol.utas.edu.au:/pub/tcs [131.217.35.98]
For further information, write to Zoltan Schreter Dept. Psychology
University of Tasmania Hobart, Tasmania AUSTRALIA,
<zoltan@psychnet.psychol.utas.edu.au>.
GENESIS (GEneral NEural SImulation System) is a general purpose
simulation platform which supports the simulation of neural systems
ranging from complex models of single neurons to simulations of large
networks made up of more abstract neuronal components. Most current
GENESIS applications involve realistic simulations of biological
neural systems. Although the software can also model more abstract
networks, other simulators are more suitable for backpropagation and
similar connectionist modeling. GENESIS and its graphical front-end
XODUS are written in C and run on SUN and DEC graphics work stations
under UNIX (Sun version 4.0 and up, Ultrix 3.1, 4.0 and up), and
X-windows (versions X11R3, X11R4, and X11R5). The current version of
GENESIS has also been used with Silicon Graphics (Irix 4.0.1 and up)
and the HP 700 series (HPUX). The distribution includes full source
code and documentation for both GENESIS and XODUS as well as fourteen
demonstration and tutorial simulations. Documentation for these
simulations is included, along with three papers that describe the
general organization of the simulator. GENESIS is available by
anonymous ftp from genesis.cns.caltech.edu (131.215.137.64). Before
using ftp, you must telnet to genesis.cns.caltech.edu and login as the
user "genesis" (no password required) to register. If you answer all
the questions asked of you an 'ftp' account will automatically be
created for you. You can then 'ftp' back to the machine and download
the software. Further inquiries concerning GENESIS may be addressed
to genesis@cns.caltech.edu.
The HYPERPLANE ANIMATOR is a program that allows convenient graphical
display of the training data and weights in a back-propagation neural
network. As learning progresses and the weights in a neural net
alter, the hyperplane positions move. At the end of the training they
are in positions that roughly divide training data into partitions,
each of which contains only one class of data. Observations of
hyperplane movement can yield valuable insights into neural network
learning. The Animator, developed by Lori Pratt and Steve Nicodemus
of the Colorado School of Mines, uses the Motif toolkit on an IBM
RS6000 with X-Windows. The system currently animates only hyperplanes
representing input-to-hidden weights. The animator is available by
anonymous ftp from
mines.colorado.edu:pub/software/hyperplane-animator/ [138.67.1.3]
as the file hyperplane-animator.tar. An openwindows version of the
animator is available by anonymous ftp from
cs.rutgers.edu:ftp/pub/hyperplane.animator
For more information, write to lpratt@mines.colorado.edu.
SUZY is a simple neural net classifier system for PCs written in C++
and Turbo Vision. RBFs are used to implement the classifier system
with a class-based algorithm being applied to find the centres and
radii of the RBS units. The program is not intended for any serious
applications and is quite slow, but may be of interest to some people.
It is available by anonymous ftp from
rhino.cis.vutbr.cz:pub/software/ai/suzy.tar.Z [147.229.3.10]
For further information, contact tgrove@psycho.fme.vutbr.cz.
Probabilistic Reasoning:
BELIEF -- ftp.stat.washington.edu (128.95.17.34)
Contact: Russell Almond <almond@stat.washington.edu>
<almond@statsci.com>
IDEAL -- Contact: srinivas@rpal.rockwell.com
Bayesian networks
Planning:
NONLIN -- cs.umd.edu:/pub/nonlin (128.8.128.8)
Contact: nonlin-users-request@cs.umd.edu
nonlin-bugs@cs.umd.edu
ABTWEAK -- jupiter.drev.dnd.ca:pub/steve/Abtweak
Contact: Steven Woods <woods@jupiter.drev.dnd.ca> or
<sgwoods@logos.uwaterloo.ca>
Nonlinear planning with abstraction
RHETORICAL -- cs.rochester.edu:/pub/knowledge-tools
Contact: Brad Miller <miller@cs.rochester.edu>
SNLP -- cs.washington.edu:/pub/snlp.tar.Z
Contact: weld@cs.washington.edu
Nonlinear planner.
IDM -- sauquoit.gsfc.nasa.gov (128.183.101.29)
Contact: idm-users@chelmsford.gsfc.nasa.gov
STRIPS-like planning.
PRODIGY -- Contact: prodigy@cs.cmu.edu
Integrated Planning and Learning System
SOAR -- ftp.cs.cmu.edu:
/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/soar/public/Soar5/ -- Lisp Version
/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/soar/public/Soar6/ -- C Version
Contact: soar-request@cs.cmu.edu
Integrated Agent Architecture.
Supports learning through chunking.
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