Artificial Intelligence

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Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1977 - Computers - 444 pages
The broad range of material included in these volumes suggests to the newcomer the nature of the field of artificial intelligence, while those with some background in AI will appreciate the detailed coverage of the work being done at MIT. The results presented are related to the underlying methodology. Each chapter is introduced by a short note outlining the scope of the problem begin taken up or placing it in its historical context. Contents, Volume I: Expert Problem Solving: Qualitative and Quantitative Reasoning in Classical Mechanics; Problem Solving About Electrical Circuits; Explicit Control of Reasoning; A Glimpse of Truth Maintenance; Design of a Programmer's Apprentice; Natural Language Understanding and Intelligent Computer Coaches: A Theory of Syntactic Recognition for Natural Language; Disambiguating References and Interpreting Sentence Purpose in Discourse; Using Frames in Scheduling; Developing Support Systems for Information Analysis; Planning and Debugging in Elementary Programming; Representation and Learning: Learning by Creating and Justifying Transfer Frames; Descriptions and the Specialization of Concept; The Society Theory of Thinking; Representing and Using Real-World Knowledge.

Contents

PART
1
CONTROLLING ATTENTION
5
REPRESENTING KNOWLEDGE IN FRAMES
7
Computers Can Do Geometric Analogy Intelligence Tests Computers Can Learn
11
PROBLEMS TO THINK ABOUT
17
The Rules Consist of a ThreePart Table Subfigure Relationships Are Simple Part 1
28
LEARNING SIMPLE DESCRIPTIONS
29
EXPLOITING NATURAL CONSTRAINTS
45
The Blocks World Has Been Studied for a Long Time KnowledgeGuided Tracking
221
SCENE DESCRIPTION
227
KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING AND TEACHING PEOPLE
235
ANALYZING MASS SPECTROGRAMS
237
Children Can Teach Mechanical Turtles to Migrate Teaching Turtles to Migrate Helps
250
BASIC LISP PROGRAMMING
263
PROGRAMMING IN LISP
275
DEFINE Creates New Functions Variables May Be Free or Bound Recursion Allows
284

EXPLOITING CONSTRAINTS IN SENTENCE ANALYSIS
71
Simple Sentences Focus on State Description and State Change The Case of a Noun Group
83
BASIC SEARCH METHODS
89
Depth First Searches Dive Deeply into the Search Tree BreadthFirst Searches Push
96
LABEL PROPAGATION IN NETWORKS
106
DEALING WITH ADVERSARIES
112
CONTROL ISSUES
130
SITUATIONACTION RULES AND PRODUCTION SYSTEMS
143
THE MEANING OF MEANING
157
Grammars Are Mechanisms for Describing Language Recursive Transition Nets Also
175
NETWORKS AND FRAMES
179
Minskys Theory of Frames Is a Theory of Rich Symbolic Structures Semantic Network
190
Basic Primitives Can Represent Many Complicated Activities Conceptual Dependency
197
POINTS OF VIEW ON VISION
205
GET and PUTPROP Are the Masters of Property Lists PROG Creates Variables
300
Programming Is Becoming Popular
307
Basic Minimaxing Is Easy to Implement Move Generation and Minimaxing Can
313
SYMBOLIC PATTERN MATCHING
323
THE SIMULATED PSYCHIATRIST
333
Satisfying an Augmented Transition Network Constitutes a Kind of Match Making LISP
357
Functions LISP Is Best Defined in LISP Fancy Control Structures Usually Start
371
MULTIPLE WORLDS
386
FOR CHAPTER 2
395
FOR CHAPTER 7
408
FOR CHAPTER 14
422
INDEX
439
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