Re: JESS: certainty/confidence factor

2006-10-17 Thread James C. Owen
Samson - First, thanks for your response that sent me to another white paper I had not seen. However, the discussion in Girratano and Riley's book is not quite the same as the topic of the author of the paper, even though similar and both do discuss MYCIN as the basis of conversation. A

Re: JESS: certainty/confidence factor

2006-10-17 Thread Samson Tu
There are inherent problems in building management of uncertainties into rule-based systems. See D. E. Heckerman, E. Horvitz. On the Expressiveness of Rule-Based Systems for Reasoning with Uncertainty. AAAI - 87, Sixth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Seattle, WA, 1987. http

Re: JESS: TIMELOCK2 in Rete()

2006-10-17 Thread Ernest Friedman-Hill
On Oct 17, 2006, at 11:52 AM, Barker, Brett A wrote: java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: "__TIMELOCK2__" There was a problem with the build server and the trial version archive was broken. The problem has been fixed, and downloading a new file will fix your problem. (Many peop

JESS: TIMELOCK2 in Rete()

2006-10-17 Thread Barker, Brett A
I'm getting the following jess exception thrown when trying to create a new Rete object. Rete r = new Rete(); generates the following error: java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: "__TIMELOCK2__" at jess.Rete.(Unknown Source) Can anyone tell me what would be causing thi

Re: JESS: certainty/confidence factor

2006-10-17 Thread James C. Owen
Actually, certainty and/or confidence factors are discussed in detail in the Giarratano and Riley's book, complete with an introduction to probability theory as well as many other concepts not normally used in business software.  This approach was used with great success in diagnosis when designing

Re: JESS: Error notifying a preference change listener. Check the log for details.

2006-10-17 Thread Ernest Friedman-Hill
On Oct 17, 2006, at 9:18 AM, Gerhard Austaller wrote: Hi I installed the eclipse plugin with eclipse version 3.3.0 (Build id: I20060922-0010). But at statup I get a message box "Error notifying a prefernce change listener. Check the log for details." The editor seems to work, because it supp

JESS: Error notifying a preference change listener. Check the log for details.

2006-10-17 Thread Gerhard Austaller
Hi I installed the eclipse plugin with eclipse version 3.3.0 (Build id: I20060922-0010). But at statup I get a message box "Error notifying a prefernce change listener. Check the log for details." The editor seems to work, because it support keyword highlighting works. Anybody having simliar prob

RE: JESS: certainty/confidence factor

2006-10-17 Thread Orchard, Bob
Title: Message There are no certainty or confidence factors implemented in Jess. There is an extension that allows fuzzy reasoning to handle uncertainty, called FuzzyJess. If this might suit your needs see:   http://www.iit.nrc.ca/IR_public/fuzzy/fuzzyJToolkit2.html   It is mentioned in Jes