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61. Empirical Methods for Artificial Intelligence (Bradford Books) by Paul R. Cohen | |
Hardcover: 421
Pages
(1995-08-03)
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Editorial Review Product Description Much of the book is devoted to research strategies and tactics,introducing new methods in the context of case studies. Chapter 6 coversperformance assessment, chapter 7 shows how to identify interactions anddependencies among several factors that explain performance, and chapter8 discusses predictive models of programs, including causal models. Thefinal chapter asks what counts as a theory in AI, and how empiricalmethods -- which deal with specific systems -- can foster generaltheories. Mathematical details are confined to appendixes and no prior knowledgeof statistics or probability theory is assumed. All of the examples canbe analyzed by hand or with commercially available statistics packages.The Common Lisp Analytical Statistics Package (CLASP), developed in theauthor's laboratory for Unix and Macintosh computers, available from TheMIT Press. More information on Empirical Methods for Artificial Intelligence A Bradford Book Customer Reviews (1)
Excellent introduction to experimental science The goal of the book is to give a gentle but solid introduction into empirical research, experimental science and interpretation of data. First four chapters are really a must-read for anyone who is interested in empirical methods. In the first chapter "Empirical Research", the author lays the foundations.Chapter two "Exploratory Data Analysis" starts with the fundamentals of statistics of one variable and introduces time series and execution traces.I really loved the "Fitting functions to Data in Scatterplots" subchapter.The introduction continues in the third chapter "Basic Issues in Experimental Design" where we learn about control, spurious effects, sampling bias, dependent variables and pilot experiments.The author gives some nice advices here.Fourth chapter is "Hypothesis Testing and Estimation" and this one concludes the introductory part. Chapters 5-9 are a little bit more advanced and somewhat biased towards Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence but could be an interesting and refreshing read to anyone who wants to get a solid foundation to experiment design, execution, data collection and interpretation. The author uses experimental data generated by a system called "Phoenix" (which he codeveloped) as the main example in the book. ... Read more |
62. Artificial Intelligence and Literary Creativity: Inside the Mind of Brutus, A Storytelling Machine by Selmer Bringsjord, David Ferrucci | |
Paperback: 264
Pages
(1999-09-01)
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A few useful ideas, lots of hype
A prelude to automated novel writing. The authors claim that their book "marks the marriage of logic and creativity", a claim that will raise the eyebrows of many a philosopher, literary critic, or novelist. But the intuitive dissonance that many in these professions may have regarding the reduction of the free-play of the imagination to the rigors and organization of logic should not dissuade others from believing that such a reduction is not only possible, but has actually been accomplished. Ironically, the authors early in the book assert that there are no examples of machine creativity in the world. Of course, this assertion depends on one's notion of what creativity is, and to what degree this creativity may have depended on the assistance of machines. Machines that create new mathematics, scientific theories, music, or novels do not yet exist, the authors claim, but they do take pains to express their optimism regarding future developments in "machine creativity". The authors are incorrect in their belief that there are no machines now that can currently develop new and interesting results in a wide variety of different domains. In addition, their notion of intelligence is too anthropomorphic, too tied to what human intelligence is, or is not (and one could argue that machine intelligence is even better understood than human intelligence). The authors though have written a book that gives the reader much insight into what is involved in building creative, thinking machines. Most refreshingly, the authors do not want to settle the question of machine creativity from the comfort of their armchairs, but instead from the laboratory by actually building artificial authors. Philosophical speculation is for the most part eschewed, and is replaced by the rigors and sometimes frustrations of laboratory experiments. According to the authors, BRUTUS exhibits "weak" creativity rather than "strong", with the latter being compared to the creation ex nihilo, examples of this being non-Euclidean geometry and the Cantor diagonalization method from mathematics. Weak creativity on the other hand, is a more practical notion, and according to the authors is rooted in the "operational" one developed by psychologists. In the development of BRUTUS, the authors wanted to create an automated story generator that satisfied seven requirements: 1. The machine must be competitive with the requirements of strong creativity. 2. The machine must be able to generate imagery in the mind of the reader. 3. The machine must produce stories in a "landscape of consciousness." 4. The machine must be capable of formalizing the concepts at the core of "belletristic" fiction, with the example of "betrayal" being emphasized the most by the authors. 5. The machine must be able to generate stories that a human would find interesting. 6. The machine must be in command of story structures that will give it "immediate standing" in the human audience. 7. The prose developed by the machine must be rich and compelling, not "mechanical". BRUTUS they say meets all of these requirements, but no doubt some critics will think otherwise. The authors do make a sound case for their assertions that it does, and it is the belief of this reviewer that they have, and that BRUTUS is one of first automated story generators. With optimism toward the future developments of BRUTUS and artificial intelligence in general, they state that "a machine able to write a full, formidable novel, or compose a feature-length film, or create and manage the unfolding story in an online game, would be, we suspect, pure gold. " They are right.
Selmer Bringsjord tells tall tales in the guise of logic
cuts across disciplines
I'll still have my job! |
63. Aaron's Code: Meta-Art, Artificial Intelligence and the Work of Harold Cohen by Pamela McCorduck | |
Hardcover: 225
Pages
(1990-10)
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Excellent source of information about Aaron I would have liked tohave seen coverage of more AI art makers, but perhaps Aaron is the only oneworth considering. For more on AI art in general, see Boden's "TheCreative Mind." Way to go Pamela! ... Read more |
64. Mind, Machine, and Metaphor: An Essay on Artificial Intelligence and Legal Reasoning (New Perspectives on Law, Culture, and Society) by Alexander E. Silverman | |
Hardcover: 145
Pages
(1993-04)
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65. Safe and Sound: Artificial Intelligence in Hazardous Applications by John Fox, Subrata Das | |
Hardcover: 325
Pages
(2000-07-07)
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66. Collective Intelligence in Action by Satnam Alag | |
Paperback: 425
Pages
(2008-10-17)
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Editorial Review Product Description There's a great deal of wisdom in a crowd, but how do you listen to a thousand people talking at once? Identifying the wants, needs, and knowledge of internet users can be like listening to a mob. In the Web 2.0 era, leveraging the collective power of user contributions, interactions, and feedback is the key to market dominance. A new category of powerful programming techniques lets you discover the patterns, inter-relationships, and individual profiles-the collective intelligence--locked in the data people leave behind as they surf websites, post blogs, and interact with other users. Collective Intelligence in Action is a hands-on guidebook for implementing collective intelligence concepts using Java. It is the first Java-based book to emphasize the underlying algorithms and technical implementation of vital data gathering and mining techniques like analyzing trends, discovering relationships, and making predictions. It provides a pragmatic approach to personalization by combining content-based analysis with collaborative approaches. This book is for Java developers implementing Collective Intelligence in real, high-use applications. Following a running example in which you harvest and use information from blogs, you learn to develop software that you can embed in your own applications. The code examples are immediately reusable and give the Java developer a working collective intelligence toolkit. Along the way, you work with, a number of APIs and open-source toolkits including text analysis and search using Lucene, web-crawling using Nutch, and applying machine learning algorithms using WEKA and the Java Data Mining (JDM) standard. Customer Reviews (21)
Good introductory book
A lot of ideas, but neither theoretical enough nor pratical enough
It's a must read..
Fascinating book about how Web 2.0 sites work.
Collective Intelligence in Action |
67. The Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence (Oxford Readings in Philosophy) | |
Paperback: 464
Pages
(1990-07-12)
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Programmers should start here. |
68. Computational Intelligence: Principles, Techniques and Applications by Amit Konar | |
Hardcover: 708
Pages
(2005-05-31)
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Editorial Review Product Description Computational Intelligence: Principles, Techniques and Applications presents both theories and applications of computational intelligence in a clear, precise and highly comprehensive style. The textbook addresses the fundamental aspects of fuzzy sets and logic, neural networks, evolutionary computing and belief networks. The application areas include fuzzy databases, fuzzy control, image understanding, expert systems, object recognition, criminal investigation, telecommunication networks, and intelligent robots. The book contains many numerical examples and homework problems with sufficient hints so that the students can solve them on their own. A CD-ROM containing the simulations is supplied with the book, to enable interested readers to develop their own application programs with the supplied C/ C++ toolbox. Customer Reviews (1)
Computational Intelligence: Principles, Techniques and Applications |
69. Readings in Distributed Artificial Intelligence by Alan H. Bond | |
Paperback: 649
Pages
(1988-08)
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70. Artificial Dreams: The Quest for Non-Biological Intelligence by H. R. Ekbia | |
Hardcover: 416
Pages
(2008-04-28)
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AI is Not What it Seems
Falls short in its criticism |
71. Universal Artificial Intelligence: Sequential Decisions Based on Algorithmic Probability (Texts in Theoretical Computer Science. An EATCS Series) by Marcus Hutter | |
Paperback: 280
Pages
(2010-11-02)
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Editorial Review Product Description This book presents sequential decision theory from a novel algorithmic information theory perspective. While the former is suited for active agents in known environments, the latter is suited for passive prediction in unknown environments. The book introduces these two different ideas and removes the limitations by unifying them to one parameter-free theory of an optimal reinforcement learning agent embedded in an unknown environment. Most AI problems can easily be formulated within this theory, reducing the conceptual problems to pure computational ones. Considered problem classes include sequence prediction, strategic games, function minimization, reinforcement and supervised learning. The discussion includes formal definitions of intelligence order relations, the horizon problem and relations to other approaches. One intention of this book is to excite a broader AI audience about abstract algorithmic information theory concepts, and conversely to inform theorists about exciting applications to AI. Customer Reviews (6)
A gem under a pile of unnecessary mathematical obfuscation
Axiomatic Artificial Intelligence Theories
Very ambitious project.
The State of the Art as it Exists Today
Theoretical universal AI |
72. Artificial General Intelligence (Cognitive Technologies) | |
Paperback: 509
Pages
(2009-12-15)
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Editorial Review Product Description This is the first book on current research on artificial general intelligence (AGI), work explicitly focused on engineering general intelligence – autonomous, self-reflective, self-improving, commonsensical intelligence. Each author explains a specific aspect of AGI in detail in each chapter, while also investigating the common themes in the work of diverse groups, and posing the big, open questions in this vital area. This book will be of interest to researchers and students who require a coherent treatment of AGI and the relationships between AI and related fields such as physics, philosophy, neuroscience, linguistics, psychology, biology, sociology, anthropology and engineering. Customer Reviews (2)
A review of Artificial General Intelligence
Introduction to the most ambitious projects ever undertaken in the history of technology |
73. Artificial Intelligence: A Beginner's Guide (Beginner's Guides) by Blay Whitby | |
Paperback: 160
Pages
(2008-09-25)
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A nice and clever aproach for begginers. |
74. Artificial Intelligence and Simulation. | |
Paperback: 711
Pages
(2005-03-24)
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Editorial Review Product Description This book constitutes the refereed post-proceedings of the 13th International Conference on AI, Simulation, and Planning in High Autonomy Systems, AIS 2004, held in Jeju Island, Korea in October 2004. The 74 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited keynote papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 170 submissions; after the conference, the papers went through another round of revision. The papers are organized in topical sections on modeling and simulation methodologies, intelligent control, computer and network security, HLA and simulator interoperation, manufacturing, agent-based modeling, DEVS modeling and simulation, parallel and distributed modeling and simulation, mobile computer networks, Web-based simulation and natural systems, modeling and simulation environments, AI and simulation, component-based modeling, watermarking and semantics, graphics, visualization and animation, and business modeling. |
75. Law, Computer Science, and Artificial Intelligence by Ajit Narayanan, Mervyn Bennun | |
Paperback: 288
Pages
(1998)
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a good collection of papers about AI and law |
76. Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems: An Introductory Analysis with Applications to Biology, Control, and Artificial Intelligence by John H. Holland | |
Paperback: 228
Pages
(1992-04-29)
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Heavily mathematical
The founder's words
Not an Introductory book
Genetic Algorithms Classic for Engineering Topics include: background, aformal framework, illustrations (genetics, economics, game playing,searches, pattern recognition and statistical inference, control andfunction optimization, and central-nervous system), schemata, the optimalallocation of trials, reproductive plans and genetic operators, therobustness of genetic plans, adaptation of coding and representations, andoverview, interim and prospectus. Inclusion of a disk ofspreadsheet-based examples would have increased user-friendliness to thesometimes moderately-complex mathematics. Otherwise, this book is a wellpresented, and useful classic for researchers and software vendors seekingto develop more innovative intelligent products. ... Read more |
77. Game Development Essentials: Game Artificial Intelligence by Jr., John B. Ahlquist, Jeannie Novak | |
Paperback: 320
Pages
(2007-07-09)
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Interesting Read |
78. Artificial Intelligence (SIE): 3/e by Dr. Elaine Rich | |
Paperback: 588
Pages
(2010-01-13)
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79. Adaptive Business Intelligence by Zbigniew Michalewicz, Martin Schmidt, Matthew Michalewicz, Constantin Chiriac | |
Paperback: 246
Pages
(2010-11-30)
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Editorial Review Product Description Adaptive business intelligence systems combine prediction and optimization techniques to assist decision makers in complex, rapidly changing environments. These systems address fundamental questions: What is likely to happen in the future? What is the best course of action? Adaptive Business Intelligence explores elements of data mining, predictive modeling, forecasting, optimization, and adaptability. The book explains the application of numerous prediction and optimization techniques, and shows how these concepts can be used to develop adaptive systems. Coverage includes linear regression, time-series forecasting, decision trees and tables, artificial neural networks, genetic programming, fuzzy systems, genetic algorithms, simulated annealing, tabu search, ant systems, and agent-based modeling. Customer Reviews (2)
Good introduction
Great book for busy managers and students |
80. Autonomy Oriented Computing: From Problem Solving to Complex Systems Modeling (Multiagent Systems, Artificial Societies, and Simulated Organizations) by Jiming Liu, XiaoLong Jin, Kwok Ching Tsui | |
Paperback: 216
Pages
(2010-11-02)
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Editorial Review Product Description Autonomy Oriented Computing is a comprehensive reference for scientists, engineers, and other professionals concerned with this promising development in computer science. It can also be used as a text in graduate/undergraduate programs in a broad range of computer-related disciplines, including Robotics and Automation, Amorphous Computing, Image Processing, Programming Paradigms, Computational Biology, etc. Part One describes the basic concepts and characteristics of an AOC system and enumerates the critical design and engineering issues faced in AOC system development. Part Two gives detailed analyses of methodologies and case studies to evaluate AOC used in problem solving and complex system modeling. The final chapter outlines possibilities for future research and development. Numerous illustrative examples, experimental case studies, and exercises at the end of each chapter of Autonomy Oriented Computing help particularize and consolidate the methodologies and theories presented. |
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