Artificial Intelligence Through Search

By: Chris Thornton, Benedict Du Boulay

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Hardcover | 1 December 1991

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This is an important textbook on artificial intelligence that uses the unifying thread of search to bring together most of the major techniques used in symbolic artificial intelligence. The authors, aware of the pitfalls of being too general or too academic, have taken a practical approach in that they include program code to illustrate their ideas. Furthermore, code is offered in both POP-11 and Prolog, thereby giving a dual perspective, highlighting the merits of these languages.
Each chapter covers one technique and divides up into three sections:

a section which introduces the technique (and its usual applications) andsuggests how it can be understood as a variant/generalisation of search;
a section which developed a `low'-level (POP-11) implementation;
a section which develops a high-level (Prolog) implementation of the technique.

The authors also include useful notes on alternative treatments to the material, further reading and exercises.
As a practical book it will be welcomed by a wide audience including, those already experienced in AI, students with some background in programming who are taking an introductory course in AI, and lecturers looking for a precise, professional and practical text book to use in their AI courses.
About the authors:
Dr Christopher Thornton has a BA in Economics, an Sc in Computer Science and a DPhil in Artificial Intelligence. Formerly a lecturer in the Department of AI at the University of Edinburgh, he is now a lecturer in AI in the School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences at the University of Sussex.
Professor Benedict du Boulay has a BSc in Physics and a PhD in Artificial Intelligence. Previously a lecturer in the Department of Computing Science at the University of Aberdeen he is currently Professor of Artificial Intelligence, also in the School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences, University of Sussex.

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Non-Fiction Computing & I.T.Computer Science Artificial Intelligence Computer Programming & Software Development Programming & Scripting Languages Fiction Graphic Novels Compilers & Interpreters

Search-Related Techniques in AI	p. 1
Simple State Space Search	p. 15
State Space Search	p. 43
Heuristic State Space Search	p. 71
Heuristic Search of Game Trees	p. 107
Problem Reduction (AND/OR-tree search)	p. 133
Planning (microworld search)	p. 171
Parsing (search as analysis)	p. 201
Expert Systems (probabilistic search)	p. 243
Concept learning (description search)	p. 267
Prolog (search as computation)	p. 293
References	p. 321
Appendix A: Introduction to POP-11	p. 325
Index	p. 359
Appendix B Where to get the source code	p. 365
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