matt joyce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ryan, what approach have your efforts taken already? > Any interesting insights to the problem? > > Matt >
My efforts as far as applying my inference engine to the OpenMoko platform basically consist of a few ideas rattling around in my head -- nothing concrete. I'm not a professional at this stuff, just an enthusiastic amateur trying to follow in the footsteps of some of the very interesting early AI research projects (most inference-based approaches to AI died out in the 80's, but a few are still around). To that end, most of my work has been focused on things not directly useful to a phone platform. I think it's important that we use an existing general-purpose platform such as Prolog (at least, it's about as general purpose as logic programming gets...). This saves us from reinventing the wheel and also prevents us from thinking ourselves into a corner -- a general purpose system will likely be much more extensible and flexible for powerusers (and with this device, who isn't?) than something we dream up. Taking an inference-based approach to setting up the rules in the phone could allow us to create rules that are more abstract than most of the examples I've seen on this list. Instead of telling it "don't use the ringer when I'm at the office", it could be "don't use the ringer when I'm doing work". "Work" would be defined by other rules, such as your proximity to the office, whether or not you've scheduled an appointment in the calendar with contacts from work (think lunch meeting), and if you have a deadline that isn't marked as complete and it's only an hour away (you're probably workign furiously to meet it). That's just an example I created just now, and not particularly good -- good examples are hard to think of, but that's largely because the possibilities are endless. As one other person on the mailing list noted, the possible configurations of the rules engine that are nonsensical outnumber the meaningful ones by millions to one :) That babbling probably wasn't very helpful to anyone, but maybe it will at least build enthusiasm. I think the gist of it was mostly this: make it more flexible than it needs to be, and also make the rules capable of building on top of each other to create more complex conditions. Just my $0.02 :) Ryan _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community