Artificial Intelligence: A New Synthesis

Intelligent agents are employed as the central characters in this new introductory text. Beginning with elementary reactive agents, Nilsson gradually increases their cognitive horsepower to illustrate the most important and lasting ideas in AI. Neural networks, genetic programming, computer vision, heuristic search, knowledge representation and reasoning, Bayes networks, planning, and language understanding are each revealed through the growing capabilities of these agents. The book provides a refreshing and motivating new synthesis of the field by one of AI's master expositors and leading researchers. Artificial Intelligence: A New Synthesis takes the reader on a complete tour of this intriguing new world of AI. * An evolutionary approach provides a unifying theme * Thorough coverage of important AI ideas, old and new * Frequent use of examples and illustrative diagrams * Extensive coverage of machine learning methods throughout the text * Citations to over 500 references * Comprehensive index Table of Contents 1 Introduction 2 Stimulus-Response Agents 3 Neural Networks 4 Machine Evolution 5 State Machines 6 Robot Vision 7 Agents that Plan 8 Uninformed Search 9 Heuristic Search 10 Planning, Acting, and Learning 11 Alternative Search Formulations and Applications 12 Adversarial Search 13 The Propositional Calculus 14 Resolution in The Propositional Calculus 15 The Predicate Calculus 16 Resolution in the Predicate Calculus 17 Knowledge-Based Systems 18 Representing Commonsense Knowledge 19 Reasoning with Uncertain Information 20 Learning and Acting with Bayes Nets 21 The Situation Calculus 22 Planning 23 Multiple Agents 24 Communication Among Agents 25 Agent Architectures