TY - BOOK AU - Lucci, Stephen. AU - Kopec, Danny TI - Artificial intelligence in the 21st century SN - 9781936420230 AV - Q 335 .L83 2013 PY - 2013/// CY - Dulles, Virginia PB - Mercury Learning and Information KW - ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE N1 - 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 N2 - 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 info@merclearning.com]. Numerous instructors’ resources are available upon adoption ER -