Artificial Intelligence: Structures and Strategies for Complex Problem Solving

by George F. Luger and William A. Stubblefield

Book Overview

KEY MESSAGE: In this accessible, comprehensive text, George Luger captures the essence of artificial intelligence-solving the complex problems that arise wherever computer technology is applied. KEY... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805347801
• ISBN13: 9780805347807
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Benjamin-Cummings Publishing Company
• Length: 740 Pages
• Weight: 2.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 7.6" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

Fantastic Introduction to AI

This book really stands out among the AI texts (I've read 4 others). First, the language is clear and simple enough for undergrads to grasp. Second, there are consistent examples that pervade the text to help the reader apply each method to an established problem. Third, the explanations of algorithms/structures are crafted and phrased to TEACH, not merely to summarize a bunch of material for reference purposes. Finally, the programming chapters allow the student to realize the material, and really think about the problems by implementing them and hashing out the details. I cannot complain about any lack of depth - the length already exceeds 900 pages. To those that desire more, look into academic journals - this is an intro. Moreover, robotics, vision, neural nets, and other topics already have their own "forked" research fields, with textbooks of comparable length focusing on those topics alone! Enjoy! This text is sure to get you started!

Don't miss it!

This is the best general AI book I've seen this far. It introduces all the popular branches of AI clearly. If you are serious about AI, you should own this book...

LISP and Prolog all in one

This book is almost a perfect solution for an introductory AI class, since it presents the chapters on both Prolog and LISP programming. The introduction to those languages is rather detailed, the Prolog chapter takes up about 75 pages while LISP introduction is almost 100 pages long. Without focusing on any particular subject in AI the book tends to be substantial and detailed.

An excellent book for an intro to AI

This book is actually a follow up to Luger and Stubblefield's older book "AI and the Design of Expert Systems". Being somewhat dated in both title and content, this book serves as its resurrection. Both books are excellent in providing a basic introduction to AI. They contain a number of problems and provide just enough infromation on each topic to give the reader the general idea and a sense of having learned something substantial (this is always the danger when writing a book that surveys a variety of interrelated fields). Another strength of the book is its ability to make connections between the different areas of AI. For example, when discussing knowledge representation, they make sure to draw connections with it and logic as well as natural language processing.

This is a good book for the beginners.

The book presents many aspects like predicate logic, state space search,knowledge representation, natural language understanding, machine learning and specially programming in both LISP and PROLOG.I specially liked the chapters on learning, natural language understanding and the programming techniques.The book is unique for its presentation style, simplicity and illustrations. It must be on the desk of anyone interested to join the disciplines of AI.