COMP151 Spring 2007 Assignment 6 (part 1) due Mon May 7
For this assignment you will create and compare learning agents. The current document contains
instructions on using the Lisp code supplied for the AIMA textbook to create and use decision
trees and neural networks.
The details of the assignment will be posted shortly. In the meantime, begin by getting your
system configured and tested using some of the supplied example problems.
INSTALLATION AND SETUP
Download and install a Lisp interpreter (do once):
A good free implementation of Common Lisp is Allegro CL 8.0 Free Express Edition, available at
http://www.franz.com/downloads/.
Many other Lisp interpreters are available, some are listed here:
http://www.thefreecountry.com/compilers/commonlisp.shtml.
Downloading and initializing AIMA code (do once):
The full package of AIMA Lisp codes is available at
http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/lisp/doc/overview.html.
If you are using Allegro CL from Franz Inc., be sure to get the code linked to from the third bullet,
which leads to ftp://ftp.franz.com/pub/aima/code/tar.gz.
Unpack the code into a convenient directory, such as C:/aima. Edit the file aima.lisp, which
is in the root of the directory in which you unpacked the AIMA code. Modify the value of the
parameter *aima-root* to match your AIMA directory.
Loading AIMA code for learning problems (every time you restart Lisp):
Start your Lisp interpreter and execute the following commands to load the AIMA code:
CG-USER(2): (load "C:\\aima\\aima.lisp")
CG-USER(3): (aima-load 'learning)
The first line should be modified to match your AIMA installation directory.
