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| Agent Programming in Ciao Prolog | 1 | |
| Multi-relational Data Mining: A perspective | 3 | |
| A Comparison of GLOWER and other Machine Learning Methods for Investment Decision Making | 5 | |
| Parallel Implementation of Decision Tree Learning Algorithms | 6 | |
| Reducing Rankings of Classifiers by Eliminating Redundant Classifiers | 14 | |
| Non-parametric Nearest Neighbor with Local Adaptation | 22 | |
| Selection Restrictions Acquisition from Corpora | 30 | |
| Classification Rule Learning with APRIORI-C | 44 | |
| Proportional Membership in Fuzzy Clustering as a Model of Ideal Types | 52 | |
| Evolution of Cubic Spline Activation Functions for Artificial Neural Networks | 63 | |
| Multilingual Document Clustering, Topic Extraction and Data Transformations | 74 | |
| Sampling-Based Relative Landmarks: Systematically Test-Driving Algorithms Before Choosing | 88 | |
| Recursive Adaptive ECOC Models | 96 | |
| A Study on End-Cut Preference in Least Squares Regression Trees | 104 | |
| The Use of Domain Knowledge in Feature Construction for Financial Time Series Prediction | 116 | |
| Optimizing the Sharpe Ratio for a Rank Based Trading System | 130 | |
| Choice: The Key for Autonomy | 142 | |
| Dynamic Evaluation of Coordination Mechanisms for Autonomous Agents | 155 | |
| Evolving Multi-agent Viewpoints - an Architecture | 169 | |
| Enabling Agents to Update Their Knowledge and to Prefer | 183 | |
| Modelling Agent Societies: Co-ordination Frameworks and Institutions | 191 | |
| Argumentation as Distributed Belief Revision: Conflict Resolution in Decentralised Co-operative Multi-agent Systems | 205 | |
| Scheduling, Re-scheduling and Communication in the Multi-agent Extended Enterprise Environment | 219 | |
| Electronic Institutions as a Framework for Agents' Negotiation and Mutual Commitment | 232 | |
| An Imitation-Based Approach to Modeling Homogenous Agents Societies | 246 | |
| Situation Calculus as Hybrid Logic: First Steps | 253 | |
| A Modified Semantics for LUPS | 261 | |
| On the Use of Multi-dimensional Dynamic Logic Programming to Represent Societal Agents' Viewpoints | 276 | |
| A Procedural Semantics for Multi-adjoint Logic Programming | 290 | |
| Representing and Reasoning on Three-Dimensional Qualitative Orientation Point Objects | 298 | |
| Encodings for Equilibrium Logic and Logic Programs with Nested Expressions | 306 | |
| A Context-Free Grammar Representation for Normal Inhabitants of Types in TA[subscript [lambda]] | 321 | |
| Permissive Belief Revision | 335 | |
| Global Hull Consistency with Local Search for Continuous Constraint Solving | 349 | |
| Towards Provably Complete Stochastic Search Algorithms for Satisfiability | 363 | |
| A Combined Constraint-Based Search Method for Single-Track Railway Scheduling Problem | 371 | |
| A Temporal Planning System for Time-Optimal Planning | 379 | |
| SimPlanner: An Execution-Monitoring System for Replanning in Dynamic Worlds | 393 | |
| Hybrid Hierarchical Knowledge Organization for Planning | 401 | |
| STeLLa: An Optimal Sequential and Parallel Planner | 409 | |
| Author Index | 417 |
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George Bergstrom
reviewed Progress in Artificial Intelligence. Knowledge Extraction, Multi-agent Systems, Logic Programming, and Constraint Solving on September 21, 2013
Progress in Artificial Intelligence. Knowledge Extraction, Multi-agent Systems, Logic Programming, and Constraint Solving
I wouldn't say I'm sorry I read the book, as there were quite a few quotes and ideas that I hadn't run into before. The book fell short, however, in that it wasn't really the Singularity primer I had hoped for. The author's condescending prose, while sometimes funny (the passage about the Estonian hacker's fitness was interesting), was heavy and depressing. It made me feel as if Dooling doesn't particularly like humanity, or himself for that matter.
Dooling's constant use of footnotes to define even the most basic terms made me wonder who he thought his target audience is. The title is "Ratpure for Geeks" but he writes as if he believes my grandmother saw this on the shelf and decided to pick it up. The author also came off as strangely arrogant. He writes as if he thinks having a linux installation on his machine makes him God's gift to technology.
And speaking of God. I wish he would have layed off the religion. I was going to rank this book as a 3.5 until I got to the last chapter, where he rips apart Dawkins and starts quoting Einstein in a way that would make anyone believe that Einstein was a theist (which at least towards the end of his life, he clearly was NOT). Then he quotes Dostoyevsky, in a way that rephrases the age-old argument that without religion there can be no morality. I had to double check the quote, and sure enough it came from the Brothers Dostoyevsky.
This struck me as intellectually dishonest. It is basically lying to quote a person for a passage in a novel and pass it off as their own beliefs. It made me immediately suspicious of every other quote he used in this book.
Dooling ends the book basically implying that he's going to focus on his soul and the afterlife, which I thought was nauseating. I strongly suspect that there was a lot more injection of his own religious beliefs in the book that was lost in editing.
There were some good parts. It was the first time I heard about the Darwin Among the Machines article, as well as the Kurzweil poetry engine. So I give it two stars. Not a total waste of time, but I wouldn't recommend it.
btw - There were WAY too many Warcraft references in this book. It got tedious. At the end in the acknowledgments, he admits that he's never played the game. What a poser.
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