Software aids to classification

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In response to Roy Plotnick's question about expert system / neural network
approaches to classifying fossils:

I've not done anything with neural networks, but if I had such an objective
I'd try a procedure called "rough set analysis".  A couple of recent
references are -

Slowinski, R.  1995.  Rough set approach to decision analysis.  AI Expert,
March 1995, pp.19-25.

Rapoport, J.  1995.  Rough sets: the boundaries of knowledge.  PC AI,
March/April 1995, pp.35-38.  [This article also provides information on a
software tool for implementing the procedure.]


Many introductory articles on neural network applications appeared in AI
Expert and PC AI from 1988 to 1991.  Notable series of papers are those by
Maureen Caudill comprising a "Neural Networks Primer" and then "Using Neural
Nets".  And beginning in the Jan./Feb. issue of PC AI, C.C. Klimasauskas has
a series of articles on "Applying Neural Networks".

                                                        Bill R.

W. Riedel
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
UCSD
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