Item #B708 Principles of Artificial Intelligence. Nils Nilsson.
Principles of Artificial Intelligence

Principles of Artificial Intelligence.

Tioga Publishing Co CA 1980; 476 pages, Illustrations, Bibliography, Author Index, Subject Index.

Condition: Very Good, clean and sound hardcover, light scuffs and light edgwear to covers; the binding is tight, pages are clean & unmarked.

Price: $7.00

Item Description

Contents include Some Applications of AI; overview; bibliographical and historical remarks at ends of each chapter; exercises at ends of chapters. Production System and AI -- specialized; comments on diff. types; Search Strategies for Production Systems - backtracking strat.;graph-search; uninformed; heuristic; related algorithms; measures of performance;

Search Strategies for Decomposable Production Systems -- searching AND/OR graphs; AO heuristic search proc. for a/o graphs; some relationships between decomposable & commutative systems; searching game trees; The Predicate Calculus in AI; Resolution Refutation Systems; Rule-Based Deduction Systems - forward, backward, control knowledge, etc;

Basic Plan-Generating Systems - robot problem solving; foward production system, rep. for plans; backward prod. system; STRIPS; using deduction systems to generate robot plans; Advanced Plan-Generating Systems; Structured Object Representations - semantic networks, matching, structured objects, defaults & contradictory information etc; Prospectus - AI System Architectures; knowledge acquisition; representational formalisms.