Количество страниц: 553 Описание: The purpose of this book is to provide an up-to-date and didactically coherent introduction to the principles and programming methods of artificial intelligence. It is appropriate for an undergraduate or first-year graduate course. While it is possible for the student to get acquainted with artificial intelligence in a single quarter or semester, a sequence of two to three quarters or semesters is preferable. The author covers most of the material in two academic quarters at the University of Washington. During the first quarter, Chapters 1 through 6 or 7 are tackled, laying a foundation of symbol manipulation,knowledge representation and inference. The second quarter takes on the more advanced topics: learning, natural language understanding, vision and the integration of AI technology into expert systems.
If programming is to be given a heavy emphasis, the material can be spread over more than two quarters; more of the problems may be assigned, and the instructor may wish to spend some time discussing various aspects of the assignments. In the final term of a two- or three-course sequence, a term project by each student, which can grow out of one of the programs provided in the text, can be very successful. Unlike other AI texts, The Elements of Artificial Intelligence integrates the presentation of principles with actual runnable LISP illustrations. I have attempted to implement a large enough fraction of these ideas in fully-presented LISP programs to allow the student to gain enough intuition through experiment to support his/her understanding of all the principles covered...
