Artificial Intelligence: Structures and Strategies for Complex Problem Solving

Combines the theoretical foundations of intelligent problem-solving with he data structures and algorithms needed for its implementation. The book presents logic, rule, object and agent-based architectures, along with example programs written in LISP and PROLOG. The practical applications of AI have been kept within the context of its broader goal: understanding the patterns of intelligence as it operates in this world of uncertainty, complexity and change.

The introductory and concluding chapters take a new look at the potentials and challenges facing artificial intelligence and cognitive science. An extended treatment of knowledge-based problem-solving is given including model-based and case-based reasoning. Includes new material on: Fundamentals of search, inference and knowledge representation AI algorithms and data structures in LISP and PROLOG Production systems, blackboards, and meta-interpreters including planers, rule-based reasoners, and inheritance systems. Machine-learning including ID3 with bagging and boosting, explanation based

learning, PAC learning, and other forms of induction Neural networks, including perceptrons, back propogation, Kohonen networks, Hopfield networks, Grossberg learning, and counterpropagation. Emergent and social methods of learning and adaptation, including genetic algorithms, genetic programming and artificial life. Object and agent-based problem solving and other forms of advanced knowledge representation

George Luger is currently a Professor of Computer Science and Psychology at the University of New Mexico. His research interests include modeling human intelligence and building intelligent control systems. He received his PhD at the University of Pennsylvania and has worked as a research fellow at the University of Edinburgh.

William Stubblefield is currently a Senior Member of Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories. His research interests include intelligent manufacturing systems, human-computer interaction, and computational models of metaphor and analogy. He received his PhD at the University of New Mexico and has worked as a visiting professor at Dartmouth College.

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