Ann: Emping 0.5 in Hackage

Emping is a utility which derives the shortest rules from a table of rules. For example, in a list of 8000 different mushrooms, it finds 21 single predicates that determine the mushroom is poisonous, and 23 that it is edible. But it also finds all combinations of two, three and more predicates that determine this property. Each shorter rule is a generalization of an original one. So, if r1 covers {a,b,c} and r2 {a,b}, then r2 implies r1 (r1 entails r2). The shorter rules are partially ordered. Thanks to the functional graphs library, which comes with ghc, the reduced rules are now displayed as graphs which can be viewed with a Graphviz viewer. Also new in 0.5 is that the reduced rules, and the reduced rules in an equivalence class, are ordered by length. Lastly, the GUI has been improved. Testing has also shown some bugs and issues, most importantly when the data contains ambiguous rules. Ambiguities are rules with the same antecedent, but a different consequent. You can test for them, but if the user turns the checks off and run Emping without correcting the data, the program could hang, in a special case. See http://home.telfort.nl/sp969709/emp/empug.html for more info and a few screenshots. Thank you all, Hans van Thiel
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