Balios  version 0.9

by

 Uwe Dick, Kristian Kersting
 University of Freiburg	
 Machine Learning Lab
 Georges-Koehler-Allee, Building 079
 79112 Freiburg
 Germany

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Please treat this copy confidentially. We are still beta 
testing it. Do not distribute/copy/... etc it. 

Next to this, permission is hereby granted, free of 
charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software 
and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to 
use it.

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This is a tool for inference and learning with
Bayesian logic programs. If you use this program,
please use 

 K. Kersting, U. Dick.  Balios - The Engine for Bayesian Logic
 Programs. Demonstration paper in J.-F. Boulicaut, F. Esposito,
 F. Giannotti and D. Pedreschi, editors, Proceedings of the 8th
 European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledege
 Discovery in Databases (PKDD-2004), pages 549-551. Pisa, Italy,
 September 20-25, 2004


as reference. 

To run Balios, SICStus Prolog 

 http://www.sics.se/isl/sicstuswww/site/index.html 

and its JAVA interface Jasper need to be installed.
Then, change the pathes in 'balios' appropriately.
Please see Sicstus' 

 Release Notes / Jasper notes / Running SICStus from Java

at the homepage mentioned aboved for more details.

In the directory 'blp_files' you will find some
sample Bayesian logic programs.

ENJOY !