Artificial Intelligence and Its Applications (Third Edition) Graduate Textbook

Author: Cai Zi Xing
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Publish Date: 2004-08-01
Features: "Artificial Intelligence and Its Applications" can be used as a textbook for postgraduate students in relevant majors at universities and colleges, and can also serve as a reference for science and technology workers engaged in artificial intelligence research and application. Undergraduate textbooks should use the companion volume "Undergraduate Textbook." This book consists of 12 chapters. Chapter 1 outlines the general overview of artificial intelligence and lists 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 discuss in detail 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 the human economy, society, and culture, and looks ahead to the integration of artificial intelligence 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, streamlined, or supplemented based on the second edition. This book can be used as a textbook for postgraduate students in relevant majors at universities and colleges, and can also serve as a reference for science and technology workers engaged in artificial intelligence research and application. Undergraduate textbooks should use the companion volume "Undergraduate Textbook."