Tuesday 5th June

Another TMA day. The word count is very restrictive. I've tried but I can't get it near the 800 words per question. Almost done. Will submit tomorrow.

Monday 4th June

Answered question 1 a of TMA o2. Realised in answering 1 b that my literature search was rather crap but I'll answer as best I can and continue to search for more information as the project progresses. For all the searching I have done on IEEE Xplore etc the papers I have found are rather high powered and quickly lose me when they delve into mathematical formulae. I have found general sites like Wikipedia far more interesting and useful.

Sunday Evening

Ran a very rudimentary flex program with one rule but at least it worked and it's a start. I loathe using flex but I've got to get to grips with it. I've started from the boiler example in T396 and it works so I'll just work through the examples I've got gradually till I get to an object based program using certainty factors. I may yet try another way of handling uncertainty in the data.

Now back to the TMA.

Sunday 3rd June

Have modified an old flex progam from T396 to test the 3 rules that are correct all the time just to ensure this works OK (rbs1.ksl). The presentation of the questions will have to change and I will need to add the further rules with certainty factors for true comparison with the neural networks.

Started TMA write up yesterday. Should be OK.

Saved the training file as an MS-DOS text file from excel and this trains the MLP without error. However the test data saved in the same format does run but the output file does not contain data that can be interpreted. I will have to spend some time looking at this.