Artificial Intelligence
Subtitle: A New Synthesis
Series: The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Artificial Intelligence; The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Artificial Intelligence
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Burlington
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 536
ISBN-13: 9780080499451
Subjects: Computer vision; Motivation; Artificial intelligence
Description: Intelligent agents are employed as the central characters in this new introductory text. Beginning with elementary reactive agents, Nilsson gradually increases their cognitive horsepower to illustrate the most important and lasting ideas in AI. Neural networks, genetic programming, computer vision, heuristic search, knowledge representation and reasoning, Bayes networks, planning, and language understanding are each revealed through the growing capabilities of these agents. The book provides a refreshing and motivating new synthesis of the field by one of AI's master expositors and leading re
Notes: Description based upon print version of record.