Artificial Intelligence: Foundations of Computational Agents – David Poole, Alan K. Mackworth – 1st Edition

The past few decades have witnessed the emergence of artificial intelligence as a serious scientific and engineering discipline. Artificial Intelligence: Fundamentals of Computational Agents is a textbook aimed at first- to senior-year undergraduates and graduate students. Introduces artificial intelligence (AI) using a coherent framework to study the design of intelligent computational agents By showing how basic approaches fit into a multidimensional design space, readers can learn the fundamentals without losing sight of the big picture general.

The book balances theory and experiment, shows how to link them intimately, and develops the science of AI along with its engineering applications. Although structured like a textbook, the book’s simple, self-contained style will also appeal to a wide audience of independent professionals, researchers, and students. AI is a rapidly developing field: this book summarizes the latest results without being exhaustive or encyclopedic. It teaches the principles and tools that will allow readers to explore and learn on their own. The text is supported by an online learning environment, artint.info, for students to experiment with major AI algorithms, plus problems, animations, lecture slides, and a knowledge representation system for experimentation and analysis. Problem resolution.