Hi Mathieu Bouchard,
Excuse me for answering this message late.. I wasn't at home and I don't have 
any portable computer..
 MB> (just to show i'm actually reading your msg)
 thanks :-)..
 MB> C/C++ to higher level languages, and found that lots of times, Tcl,
 MB> Perl, Make, and such, are better suited to the task. In your case, the
 MB> language of choice might be Prolog. Most programmers are only familiar
 I don't see any easy way of solving this problem with prolog.. Maybe you can 
help me formulating an algorithm for that.. Even if I'm no proloh expert, I 
can write a C++ backward chaining engine..
 MB> Two or three years ago my favorite languages were Basic and 8086
 MB> intel-style assembly language (as opposed to unix-style syntax)...
 :) poor mathieu.. It must have been a boring life..
 BO>> I considered a NN solution similar to solution of TS problem with
 BO>> a Hopfield network but could not really formulate it. Note: I'm
 BO>> neither a computer engineering nor a mathematics student, so
 BO>> please try to keep your answer simple in terms of jargon.
 MB> You're using quite a bit of jargon yourself :-) (as far as obscure
 MB> abbreviations go)
 ohem.. I never said that I'd be coherent, did I? :) Well, I was so involved 
in AI (Artificial intelligence) thing that NN, and 'hopfield network' type of 
words seems like basic stuff to me.. BTW NN is the YABA for 'Neural networks' 
(YABA= yet another bloody acronym).. TS stands for 'travelling salesman'
 MB> Prolog may be a hard language in some sense, for that kind of
 MB> problems i think it would be more natural, ie easier to translate
 MB> from human language. I don't want to analyze all of this problem, but
 MB> if Prolog is not the answer, then a derivative of Prolog, enhanced
 MB> for optimizations, might be better.
 Prolog is fine for constraint satisfaction problems where the is a perfect 
answer to be sought, I suppose.. I need an approximate solution, or else I 
have to wait for thousands of years to try all possibilities (well, a good 
algorithm may only require a few years or so, still...)
 MB> I keep a copy of your message in case I change my mind (i.e. i might
 (cheers)
 MB> get a urge to do math), although i'm no Prolog expert, and i'm not at
 MB> all aware of most of the math stuff you're talking about. At worse,
 math stuff? The only maths in my message is in the subject 'cause it makes 
the message look like an expert one.. Ofcourse, if I hadn't have the typo 
there (Bipartitate for Bipartate) :)
 MB> this message might be useless. :-)
 Be sure you have helped me, at least now I know someone have read at least 
one message by me.. Thanks..
                                                Berk
... Mommas, don't let your babies grow up to be SysOp's
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