Artificial Intelligence and Its Applications Graduate Textbook

Author: Cai Zixing / Xu Guangyou (editors)
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Publish Date: 2004-08-01
Features: This book consists of 12 chapters. Chapter 1 introduces an overview of artificial intelligence, listing its research and application fields. Chapters 2 and 3 explore traditional artificial intelligence's knowledge representation methods, search techniques, and advanced knowledge reasoning. Chapter 4 elaborates on the fundamental knowledge of computational intelligence, including neural computing, fuzzy computing, rough set theory, evolutionary computing, artificial life, swarm intelligence, natural computing, and immune algorithms. Chapters 5 to 11 provide a detailed discussion of the main applications of artificial intelligence, including expert systems, machine learning, automatic planning, agents, machine vision, natural language understanding, and intelligent control. Chapter 12 reviews recent debates on artificial intelligence, discusses its impact on human economics, society, and culture, and looks ahead to its integration with agents, computational intelligence, evolutionary computing, swarm intelligence optimization, natural computing, immune computing, and knowledge discovery and data mining. Other chapters have also been modified, refined, or supplemented based on the second edition. This book can serve as a textbook for postgraduate students in relevant fields of higher education institutions, as well as a reference for researchers and professionals engaged in artificial intelligence research and application. Undergraduate students are advised to use the companion volume "Undergraduate Textbook."