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From: reece@enuxha.eas.asu.edu (Glen A. Reece)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Repository of AI source code
Summary: I'll second that...
Message-ID: <1933@enuxha.eas.asu.edu>
Date: 14 Dec 90 19:56:45 GMT
References: <11331@pt.cs.cmu.edu> <5282@baird.cs.strath.ac.uk>
Organization: Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
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In article <5282@baird.cs.strath.ac.uk>, pat@cs.strath.ac.uk (Pat Prosser) writes:
> 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!

  This is an excellent idea, and seems like many people are interested
in doing such a thing (i.e., Ken Forbus).  I would like to second Pat's
call for including scheduling problems and algorithms/techniques.  I'm
currently working in the area of job shop scheduling for my thesis in
AI and I'm running into the vary problem of reinventing work that I
know for a fact was done in the past.  In fact, I'm working with
Karl Kempf from the Intel AI Lab in Santa Clara, California, and his
position is that the results of the work must be made available so
people don't keep bumping their heads against the same walls.

    - Glen


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