| Title: | Europe-Swas-Artificial-Intelligence |
| Moderator: | HERON::BUCHANAN |
| Created: | Fri Jun 03 1988 |
| Last Modified: | Thu Aug 04 1994 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 442 |
| Total number of notes: | 1429 |
Hello folks,
thought I'd copy note 4.7 down here (who looks at old notes anyway?)
Please enroll in large numbers as we're flying in an American
instructor specially, and it would be such a pity to waste her !
best regards,
Pete. (sole surviving member of AI Trg Munich)
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EY-D070E - PROGRAMMING IN VAX DECISION EXPERT - TRNG ANN.
COURSE SUMMARY & CHARACTERISTICS
Date : August 28/September 1 Duration : 5 days
Location : Munich, Germany Course type : Lec/lab, slot-controlled
Any slots not taken up by the 1st August will be offered on an open
enrolment (first-come-first-served) basis.
Target function : EDU, SWAS, FS
Deadline for enrolment : August 18, ENROLMENT TEC @UFH
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PROGRAMMING IN VAX DECISION EXPERT
TARGET AUDIENCE
Non-AI programmers and engineers who wish to develop expert or
knowledge-based applications within the VMS environment.
PREREQUISITES
Students should have some knowledge of a programming language such as VAX
C. A basic knowledge of expert system terms and concepts is helpful. The
basic understanding of expert system terms and concepts can be obtained
from the course "BUILDING AND PROTOTYPING EXPERT SYSTEMS" EY-A918E-L0.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
This course is designed to teach students to:
. Build diagnostic and maintenance expert systems
. Intelligent help systems
. Use if/then tables to represent heuristic knowledge
. Use decision trees for intelligent advisory systems
. Integrate a VAX decision expert application in an application solution
. Use the end-user interface to deliver developed applications.
COURSE DESCRIPTION
OVERVIEW
This course is designed to train non-AI programmers and engineers in the
use of VAX decision expert in building expert systems. The course will
focus on the use of VAX decision expert to build applications in
diagnostics, maintenancce and decision trees, although it can be used in a
variety of other areas. Working on Vaxstations students will have the
opportunity to develop practical skills using both VAX decision expert's
development and delivery environments.
TOPICS
. IF/THEN tables and rules
. Forward/backward chaining
. Linking modules
. AND/OR trees
. Logical operators: AND, OR, NAND, NOR, AND NOT
. Decision trees
. Utility language to display text menus, and access to external programs
and devices
. VAX decision expert end-user interface.
- DATE : August 28/September 1
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- LOCATION : Munich, Germany
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- ENROLMENT PROCEDURE :
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All enrolment request MUST BE SENT to ENROLMENT TEC @UFH with
the following information :
Course Corporate Nbr : EY-D070E
Course Title : PROGRAMMING IN VAX DECISION EXPERT
Course Dates : AUGUST 28/SEPTEMBER 1
Course Location : MUNICH, GERMANY
Complete Student name : <>
*** PREREQUISITE *** : YES or NO
Function : <>
Exact Job title : <>
Badge number : <>
Cost centre : <>
VAXmail or Email Addr. : <>
Manager's Name : <>
City & Country : <>
Arrival date : <>
Departure date : <>
Accommodation required : YES or NO
The agenda will be sent later on to the CONFIRMED participants
together with the final logistical and accommodation details.
DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATION :
AUGUST 18
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 121.1 | Course Feedback | MUNSBE::BRITTAIN | Peter, EDU Munich @UFC *773-2069 | Tue Sep 05 1989 16:38 | 89 |
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| Report on the European "Train-the-Trainer" Course for |
| VAX DECISION EXPERT |
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by: Peter MUNSBE::Brittain @UFC (using the Student Opinion Forms)
Dates: 28-aug - 1-sept-1989
Instructor: Malin ESIS::Goodwin
(Ed Serv. Intelligent Systems Group,Marlboro)
Students:
EDU Antony Madeley @RKA Uk
Hamadoun Dicko @EVO Fr
Peter Brittain @UFC Gy
FS
Jaak Leen @BRO Be
Leopold Ngamby @PAO Fr
Richard Wood @UVO Uk
SWAS
Juan Escudero @SQO Sp
Bernd Jung @COO GY
Alexandra Boek @UNT Gy
IS Michel Saez @FYO Fr/Eur
ETG/SSM Robert McKeating Ayr Uk
SSG Gernot Loeffler Vienna Au
THE COURSE:
The Course materials were marked very highly by all students (all
Strongly Agree or Agree). They show a clear, logical strucure, have
sensible incremental examples plus a mini-project, are very well
presented and leave no essential topics uncovered.
Slides in the European sense were lacking, the instructor showing
pages of the students guide instead, as is the American norm. However
the developer (= the instructor) made excellent use of graphics, and
there were no complaints about slides.
THE INSTRUCTOR:
The Instructor, Malin Goodwin, was also marked very highly on all
counts: knowledgebility, helpfulness, clarity, didactic skills and
efficient use of time. She was conscientious in helping the students
with there exercises, and shows a genuine committment to the quality of
the materials.
THE FACILITIES:
The facilities, in particular the workstation cluster, were marked
only fair. One Student's workstation crashed frequently. The
classroom also lacked a barco for screen projection and a microphone for
the instructor to make herself heard above the workstations. The
workstations themselves were rather too slow (Paging over Ethernet ?).
THE SOFTWARE:
The EDU opinion forms have no slot for evaluation of the software.
Generally VDEEX lacks the "look-and-feel" of the DECWindows environment,
and it can be painfully slow (on a VAX Station at least) to enter and
'compile' facts and data - eg. Forcing one to use menus to enter single
characters in an If-Then-table. Having said this, the software gives a
basically solid impression ie. serious bugs were not observed.
OVERALL IMPRESSION (11 Opinion sheets returned)
4 X Excellent
2 X Very Good
4 X Good
1 (No Entry)
All but one student would recommend the course (Strongly agree or Agree)
to others.
OTHER COMMENTS:
One student was of the opinion that the coursse should have been
held in less time (3 days), but I do not believe that this was thought
generally (personal impression).
I would like to thank Malin and the ESIS group for giving us an
excellent course.
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