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Denver Area Lisp User Group meeting for September

Tuesday, September 14, 2004

After a summer hiatus, we're ready to start up with another round of Denver Area Lisp User Group meetings. Here's the September meeting announcement:

Topic: Knowledge-based Simulation Environment
Presenter: Doug Williams
Date: Monday, September 27th
Time: 7pm - 8:45pm
Venue: Boulder Public Library - George Reynolds Branch (Note: this is a different Boulder Public Library location from the one where we had the Kenny Tilton meeting). 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder (information and map at: http://www.boulder.lib.co.us/branch/grb.html)
Summary: (Doug's summary)

I am attempting to recreate - and extend - in PLT Scheme the knowledge-based simulation environment I used to have in Symbolics Common Lisp. It will consist of three PLT Scheme collections: Science Collection, Simulation Collection, and Inferencing Collection. The PLT Scheme Science Collection is a port of portions of the GNU Scientific Library (GSL) that provides a foundation for inplementing the other collections as well as providing data analysis functions. The PLT Scheme Science Collection is largely implemented. The PLT Scheme Simulation Collection provides a discrete-event simulation engine based on a process interaction model. The PLT Scheme Simulation Collection has been prototyped. The PLT Scheme Inferencing Collection provides a rule-based inferencing engine.

In this talk, I will present the PLT Scheme Science Collection as well as discussion how to use - and extend - PLoT Scheme for data analysis.

• PLT Scheme Science Collection
  • Mathematical Functions
  • Special Functions
  • Random Number Generation
  • Random Distributions
  • Statistics
  • Histograms
  • Chebyshev Approximations
• Using PLoT Scheme
  • PLoT Scheme Overvire
  • Extending PLoT Scheme
  • Histogram Plot
  • Step Plot
• Future Plans
  • PLT Scheme Simulation Collection
  • PLT Scheme Inferencing Collection
• Demo and Q&A