Hi to all Courses at the undergrad. level should be taught which introduce students to creative problem- solving. It may be wise to have Nobel Prize -winning researchers crystallize their thoughts on how they conceived their most creative projects. Regards, Dave Soriano Ph.D. , Associate Professor of Chemistry U. Pittsburgh- Bradford in Pa. , U.S.A.
Wlodzislaw Duch wrote: > Lev, > > I agree completely that we need better method to express knowledge > than simply rules and decision trees. First Order Logic is one step > beyond that and AI has provided us with a whole subbranch devoted to > the representation of knowledge. The issue is not only how to do it > but how to find efficient ways of doing it. While decision trees are > very efficient to do simple things they are not so great to discover > and represent higher-level structured knowledge. > > ETS has some advantages here but there are two problems that need to > be addressed. > First is the need for efficient implementation of the minimal > transformation cost calculations and the second is an efficient > implementation of the search for the best substitutes that should > allow to discover class structures. > > We have once worked on algorithmic complexity (or Levin's complexity) > that in principle could discover the simplest program solving a given > task but in practice it couldn't do much being NP hard. Is there any > progress in this direction? > > Wlodek Duch > Dept. of Computer Methods, N. Copernicus University > http://www.phys.uni.torun.pl/~duch
