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Subject: Re: Repository of AI source code
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Date: 13 Dec 90 12:46:57 GMT
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In article <11331@pt.cs.cmu.edu> mnr@daisy.learning.cs.cmu.edu (Marc Ringuette) writes:
>It would be extremely useful to have access to an archive of source code
>for common AI problems.  Such an archive could contain simple planners, 
>parsers, frame-based representations, and commonly used algorithms.  This
>would encourage sharing and discourage reinventing the wheel.

Extremely

>
>Do you have any ideas for additional material it should contain?
>

Recently there was such a request posted to this group for 
public domain (PD) algorithms for the constraint satisfaction 
problem. I would like to see this, along with a set of standard 
csp problems. Also, for those among us that are interested in scheduling,
a number of scheduling problems could be made available.
These algorithms/problems would not only discourage reinvention, but
would also allow us to compare algorithms on given data sets. This would 
be progress!