Alkemy
al-che-my : A medieval chemical philosophy having as its
asserted aims the transmutation of base metals into gold, the
discovery of the panacea, and the preparation of the elixir of
longevity.
Alkemy is a decision-tree learning system designed to learn comprehensible
theories from structured data.
The logical foundations for Alkemy is provided in the book
`Logic for
Learning' by John
Lloyd.
Algorithmic and learning-theoretic aspects of the system are discussed
in the thesis Learning Comprehensible
Theories from Structured Data.
Alkemy is implemented in Noweb-C++, with fairly extensive documentation.
It is being actively supported.
The current version is Release 1.3. (Escher is now implemented.)
The program
and its source code is protected by copyright, but is available
for research and educational purposes.
If you wish to use this code in any other way, please contact me for
more information.
Kindly email a short note to let me know you have downloaded the system.
Also let me know if you wish to be added to an Alkemy mailing list.
The list will inform people of updates to the system. Obviously, I am also
interested in any feedback and bug reports for Alkemy.
An older (but more efficient) version that does not make use of Escher
for computation is available
here.
Last Updated: 29 September, 2009
Kee Siong Ng: keesiong.ng@gmail.com
Copyright 2009, All Rights Reserved, Kee Siong Ng, The Australian
National University