Action Programming Languages (Synthesis Lectures on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, 5) - Softcover

Thielscher, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1598295446 ISBN 13: 9781598295443

Publisher: Morgan and Claypool Publishers, 2008

Synopsis

Artificial systems that think and behave intelligently are one of the most exciting and challenging goals of Artificial Intelligence. Action Programming is the art and science of devising high-level control strategies for autonomous systems which employ a mental model of their environment and which reason about their actions as a means to achieve their goals. Applications of this programming paradigm include autonomous software agents, mobile robots with high-level reasoning capabilities, and General Game Playing. These lecture notes give an in-depth introduction to the current state-of-the-art in action programming. The main topics are knowledge representation for actions, procedural action programming, planning, agent logic programs, and reactive, behavior-based agents. The only prerequisite for understanding the material in these lecture notes is some general programming experience and basic knowledge of classical first-order logic.

Edition details

• Publisher: Morgan and Claypool Publishers
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1598295446
• ISBN 13: 9781598295443
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 91