Principles of Artificial Intelligence

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Morgan Kaufmann, Jun 28, 2014 - Computers - 476 pages
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A classic introduction to artificial intelligence intended to bridge the gap between theory and practice, Principles of Artificial Intelligence describes fundamental AI ideas that underlie applications such as natural language processing, automatic programming, robotics, machine vision, automatic theorem proving, and intelligent data retrieval. Rather than focusing on the subject matter of the applications, the book is organized around general computational concepts involving the kinds of data structures used, the types of operations performed on the data structures, and the properties of the control strategies used.



Principles of Artificial Intelligenceevolved from the author's courses and seminars at Stanford University and University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and is suitable for text use in a senior or graduate AI course, or for individual study.

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Page 25
The backtracking process is one way in which the control strategy can be
tentative. A rule is selected, and if it doesn't lead to a solution, the intervening
steps are “forgotten,” and another rule is selected instead. Formally, the
backtracking ...
Page 52
1.8 Critically discuss the following thesis: Backtracking (or depth-first graph-
search) control strategies should be used when there are multiple paths between
problem states because these strategies tend to avoid exploring all of the paths.
Page 55
We begin our discussion of tentative control by describing backtracking methods.
2.1. BACKTRACKING STRATEGIES In chapter 1 we presented a general
description of the backtracking control strategy and illustrated its use on the 8-
puzzle.
Page 57
By definition, if a “correct” rule is always first in the ordering, no backtracking will
occur at all. We have used a specific procedure, BACKTRACK, to explain how
backtracking control strategies operate. Several practical concerns—such as the
 ...
Page 60
The 8-puzzle example of backtracking in chapter 1 used BOUND = 7 and also
checked to see if a tile configuration had been visited ... If a level n recursive call
of BACKTRACK fails, control returns to level n – 1 where another rule is tried.

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Contents

PROLOGUE
1
CHAPTER 1 PRODUCTION SYSTEMS AND AI
17
CHAPTER 2 SEARCH STRATEGIES FOR AI PRODUCTION SYSTEMS
53
CHAPTER 3 SEARCH STRATEGIES FOR DECOMPOSABLE PRODUCTION SYSTEMS
99
CHAPTER 4 THE PREDICATE CALCULUS IN AI
131
CHAPTER 5 RESOLUTION REFUTATION SYSTEMS
161
CHAPTER 6 RULEBASED DEDUCTION SYSTEMS
193
CHAPTER 7 BASIC PLANGENERATING SYSTEMS
275
CHAPTER 8 ADVANCED PLANGENERATING SYSTEMS
321
CHAPTER 9 STRUCTURED OBJECT REPRESENTATIONS
361
PROSPECTUS
417
BIBLIOGRAPHY
429
AUTHOR INDEX
467
SUBJECT INDEX
471
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About the author (2014)

Nils J. Nilsson's long and rich research career has contributed much to AI. He has written many books, including the classic Principles of Artificial Intelligence. Dr. Nilsson is Kumagai Professor of Engineering, Emeritus, at Stanford University. He has served on the editorial boards of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning and as an Area Editor for the Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery. Former Chairman of the Department of Computer Science at Stanford, and former Director of the SRI Artificial Intelligence Center, he is also a past president and Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence.

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TitlePrinciples of Artificial Intelligence
AuthorNils J. Nilsson
Editionreprint
PublisherMorgan Kaufmann, 2014
ISBN1483295869, 9781483295862
Length476 pages
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Computers / Data Processing
Computers / Expert Systems
Computers / General
Computers / Intelligence (AI) & Semantics
  
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