Archive for April, 2003
Natural Language Semantics
Tuesday, April 29th, 2003Dealing with natural language and parsing sentences to extract meaning can be tricky. This tutorial explains one way of dealing with the problem using lambda calculus. There are many possible applications of such techniques, including bots that can understand orders.
Written by Max Dennis Luesebrink.
Solving Travelling Salesman Problems Using Genetic Algorithms
Wednesday, April 9th, 2003An evolutionary approach is applied to one of the most challenging combinatorial problems. The step by step application of the GA to the TSP is discussed in a practical fashion, with code provided.
Written by Eric Martel.
Economics and Artificial Intelligence
Tuesday, April 1st, 2003Theories in economy are fundamentally based on assumptions. This article proposes using simulation to verify them, using computer controlled agents that model human behaviours according economists - experimentally validating or contradicting the theories.
Written by James Kingsbery.
