ANIMALS - A Distributed, Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Machine Learning System

1999 1 To Alpa Acknowledgements My thanks go to: Dr Pete Edwards for his support, guidance, ideas and critical gaze, but most of all, for his enthusiasm for, and knowledge of, Machine Learning. Ruediger Oelhmann for his knowledge and patience with LISP questions. Charalambos 'Babis' Tsatsarakis for his help with LispView and CLOS. Patrick Henry Winston for engaging my interest in Artificial Intelligence. and last but not least, Dave Tenny, another Ex-Deccie, and author of DECWEB, for originally introducing me to the wonders of LISP.

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