Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence: Problem-Solving and Automated Reasoning, 1st Edition PDF

Explore the principles and practices of modern artificial intelligence

This comprehensive volume focuses on the core techniques and processes underlying today's artificial intelligence. Written by a recognized expert in the field, Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence: Problem-Solving and Automated Reasoning is written in a concise format with a scope and format built to optimize learning. You will get chapter summaries, historical overviews, exercises, computer assignments, thought experiments, and control questions that reinforce key concepts. This book features visuals that illustrate essential ideas and easy-to-follow examples that indicate how to use these ideas in practical implementations.

• Blind search

• Heuristic search and annealing 

• Adversary search

• Planning

• Genetic algorithm

• Artificial life

• Emergent properties and swarm intelligence

• Elements of automated reasoning

• Logic and reasoning, simplified

• Alternative ways of representing knowledge

• Hurdles on the road to automated reasoning

• Probabilistic reasoning

• Fuzzy sets

• Highs and lows of expert systems

• Going beyond core AI

Author: Miroslav Kubat