An Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

✍ Scribed by Janet Finlay, Alan Dix

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 287
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

An authoritative and accessible one-stop resource, An Introduction to Artificial Intelligence presents the first full examination of AI. Designed to provide an understanding of the foundations of artificial intelligence, it examines the central computational techniques employed by AI, including knowledge representation, search, reasoning, and learning, as well as the principal application domains of expert systems, natural language, vision, robotics, software agents and cognitive modeling. Many of the major philosophical and ethical issues of AI are also introduced.

Throughout the volume, the authors provide detailed, well-illustrated treatments of each topic with abundant examples and exercises. The authors bring this exciting field to life by presenting a substantial and robust introduction to artificial intelligence in a clear and concise coursebook form. This book stands as a core text for all computer scientists approaching AI for the first time.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Preface
Introduction
1 Knowledge in AI
2 Reasoning
3 Search
4 Machine learning
5 Game playing
6 Expert systems
7 Natural language understanding
8 Computer vision
9 Planning and robotics
10 Agents
11 Models of the mind
12 Epilogue: philosophical and sociological issues
Bibliography
Index