Principles of Artificial Intelligence by Nils J Nilsson

Principles of Artificial Intelligence by Nils J Nilsson

Previous treatments of Artificial Intelligence (AI) divide the subject into its major areas of application, namely, natural language processing, automatic programming, robotics, machine vision, automatic theorem proving, intelligent data retrieval systems, etc. The major difficulty with this approach is that these application areas are now so extensive, that each could, at best, be only superficially treated in a book of this length. Instead, I have attempted here to describe fundamental AI ideas that underlie many of these applications. My organization of these ideas is not, then, based on the subject matter of their application, but is, instead, based on general computational concepts involving the kinds of data structures used, the types of operations performed on these data struc­ tures, and the properties of con'trol strategies used by AI systems. I stress, in particular, the important roles played in AI by generalized production systems and the predicate calculus. The notes on which the book is based evolved in courses and seminars at Stanford University and at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Although certain topics treated in my previous book, Problem­ solving Methods in Artificial Intelligence, are covered here as well, this book contains many additional topics such as rule-based systems, robot problem-solving systems, and structured-object representations.

Nils J.Nilsson is an Emeritus Kumagai Professor of Engineering in Stanford University's Department of Computer Science. He is the author of several publications, including The Search for Artificial Intelligence: A History of Concepts and Achievements. He is a resident of Oregon.

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ISBN 13	9783662094402
ISBN 10	3662094401
Title	Principles of Artificial Intelligence
Author	Nils J Nilsson
Series	Symbolic Computation
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Year published	2014-08-23
Number of pages	476
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