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The title of this talk is WIZARD, which is also the name of our computer programme. Many people like to give programmes names that mean something. WIZARD doesn’t mean anything, I like the name. The WIZARD project has three parts. It combines axiomatic theories, which are mathematical models of reasoning, and artificial intelligence, which is the technique that we utilize to study axiomatic theories. We then apply that to conformational analysis. Those are the three parts of the WIZARD project. Our purpose in the WIZARD project was to provide an expert which the chemists could utilize, sort of a helper to a chemist, so that they could understand the conformational possibilities in a molecule. We wanted a chemist to be able to find all conformers, rather than just one, two, or a large number of them. We also wanted to have the chemist be able to understand such things as the conformational rigidity or flexibility of a molecule.
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Dolata, D.P. (1989). “WIZARD: Artificial Intelligence and Conformational Analysis”. In: Tosi, C. (eds) Proceedings of the First Donegani Scientific Workshop on Strategies for Computer Chemistry. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2599-1_9
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