Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach

For one or two-semester, undergraduate or graduate-level courses in Artificial Intelligence. The long-anticipated revision of this best-selling text offers the most comprehensive, up-to-date introduction to the theory and practice of artificial intelligence. NEW-Nontechnical learning material-Accompanies each part of the book. NEW-The Internet as a sample application for intelligent systems-Added in several places including logical agents, planning, and natural language. NEW-Increased coverage of material - Includes expanded coverage of: default reasoning and truth maintenance systems, including multi-agent/distributed AI and game theory; probabilistic approaches to learning including EM; more detailed descriptions of probabilistic inference algorithms. NEW-Updated and expanded exercises-75% of the exercises are revised, with 100 new exercises. NEW-On-line Java software. Makes it easy for students to do projects on the web using intelligent agents. A unified, agent-based approach to AI-Organizes the material around the task of building intelligent agents. Comprehensive, up-to-date coverage-Includes a unified view of the field organized around the rational decision making pa Show more