Conference heron::euro_swas_ai

436.0. "Dynamic Tree Modification ?" by OSITEL::BRITTAIN (Peter, TCC Munich @UFC 865-3102) Thu Apr 22 1993 10:55

    All Hail, vibrant and dynamic AI community!


    Mr. Customer has an interesting wish for his help-system.  He wants it
    to "learn" by remembering frequently traversed paths and extending
    branches interactively with the user (help-desk support people).

    Remember the old example we used to do in Lisp courses,
    "Guess-the-animal" where, if the prog got the answer wrong it would
    prompt for a way of distinguishing the right answer from the nearest
    guess it had in its tree, and then extend the tree (destructively
    modify its list) ?  ...Well that's partly, approximately what he wants.

    I'd like to continue with dectree, cause it's such fun (I don't think
    he'd let me do it in Lisp anyway!).  Paul AIAG::Wisner has given me
    some clues about writing out new .TREE files, but a re-build is of
    course unavoidable.

    Perhaps one of you AI guys out there knows a tool that supports this
    dynamic modification of trees ?   (OPS5 and Prolog can also add and use
    production rules dynamically, but is this a good approach ?)


    -pete

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Joe.