Artificial intelligence in the 21st century /

Lucci, Stephen.

Artificial intelligence in the 21st century / Stephen Lucci anad Danny Kopec - Second edition - Dulles, Virginia : Mercury Learning and Information, c2013 - xxxi, 590 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I: Introduction -- 1. Overview of artificial intelligence -- Part II: Fundamentals -- 2. Uniformed Search Intelligence -- 3. Informed Search -- 4. Search Using Games -- 5. Logic in Artificial Intelligence -- 6. Knowledge Representation -- 7. Production Systems -- Part III. Knowledge-based Systems -- 8. Uncertainty in A1 -- 9. Expert Systems -- 10. Neural Networks -- 11. Search Inspired by Mother Nature -- Part IV: Advanced Topics -- 12. Natural Language Understanding -- 13. Automated Planning -- 14. Advanced Computer Games -- Part V. The Present and Future -- 15. Reprise -- Appendices -- A. Example with CLIPS: The Expert System Shell -- B. Implementation of the Viterbi Algorithm for Hidden Markov Chains -- C. Contriutions to Computer Chess: The Amazing Walter Shawn Browne -- D. Applications and Data -- E. Solutions to Selected Exercises.

This new edition provides a comprehensive, colorful, up to date, and accessible presentation of AI without sacrificing theoretical foundations. It includes numerous examples, applications, full color images, and human interest boxes to enhance student interest. New chapters on robotics and machine learning are now included. Advanced topics cover neural nets, genetic algorithms, natural language processing, planning, and complex board games. A companion DVD is provided with resources, applications, and figures from the book[Companion files available from publisher with Amazon order number by writing to [email protected]]. Numerous instructors’ resources are available upon adoption.

9781936420230


ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Q 335 .L83 2013