Ⅰ artificial intelligence
1 introduction
1.1what is al?
1.2the foundations of artificial intelligence
1.3the history of artificial intelligence
1.4the state of the art
1.5summary, bibliographical and historical notes, exercises
2 intelligent agents
2.1agents and environments
2.2good behavior: the concept of rationality
2.3the nature of environments
2.4the structure of agents
2.5summary, bibliographical and historical notes, exercises
Ⅱ problem-solving
3 solving problems by searching
3.1problem-solving agents
3.2example problems
3.3searching for solutions
3.4uninformed search strategies
3.5informed (heuristic) search strategies
3.6heuristic functions
3.7summary, bibliographical and historical notes, exercises
4 beyond classical search
4.1local search algorithms and optimization problems
4.2local search in continuous spaces
4.3searching with nondeterministic actions
4.4searching with partial observations
4.5online search agents and unknown environments
4.6summary, bibliographical and historical notes, exercises
5 adversarial search
5.1games
5.2optimal decisions in games
5.3alpha-beta pruning
5.4imperfect real-time decisions
5.5stochastic games
5.6partially observable games
5.7state-of-the-art game programs
5.8alternative approaches
5.9summary, bibliographical and historical notes, exercises
6 constraint satisfaction problems
6.1defining constraint satisfaction problems
6.2constraint propagation: inference in csps
6.3backtracking search for csps
6.4local search for csps
6.5the structure of problems
6.6summary, bibliographical and historical notes, exercises
Ⅲ knowledge, reasoning, and planning
7 logical agents
7.1knowledge-based agents
7.2the wumpus world
7.3logic
7.4propositional logic: a very simple logic
7.5propositional theorem proving
7.6effective propositional model checking
7.7agents based on propositional logic
7.8summary, bibliographical and historical notes, exercises
8 first-order logic
8.1representation revisited
8.2syntax and semantics of first-order logic
8.3using first-order logic
8.4knowledge engineering in first-order logic
8.5summary, bibliographical and historical notes, exercises
9 inference in first-order logic
9.1propositional vs. first-order inference
9.2unification and lifting
9.3forward chaining
9.4backward chaining
9.5resolution
9.6summary, bibliographical and historical notes, exercises
10 classical planning
10.1 definition of classical planning
10.2 algorithms for planning as state-space search
10.3 planning graphs
10.4 other classical planning approaches
10.5 analysis of planning approaches
10.6 summary, bibliographical and historical notes, exercises
11 planning and acting in the real world
11.1 time, schedules, and resources
11.2 hierarchical planning
11.3 planning and acting in nondeterministic domains
11.4 multiagent planning
11.5 summary, bibliographical and historical notes, exercises
12 knowledge representation
12.1 ontological engineering
12.2 categories and objects
12.3 events
12.4 mental events and mental objects
12.5 reasoning systems for categories
12.6 reasoning with default information
12.7 the intemet shopping world
12.8 summary, bibliographical and historical notes, exercises
Ⅳ uncertain knowledge and reasoning
13 quantifying uncertainty
13.1 acting under uncertainty
13.2 basic probability notation
13.3 inference using full joint distributions
13.4 independence
13.5 bayes' rule and its use
13.6 the wumpus world revisited
13.7 summary, bibliographical and historical notes, exercises
14 probabilistic reasoning
14.1 representing knowledge in an uncertain domain
14.2 the semantics of bayesian networks
14.3 efficient representation of conditional distributions
14.4 exact inference in bayesian networks
14.5 approximate inference in bayesian networks
14.6 relational and first-order probability models
14.7 other approaches to uncertain reasoning
14.8 summary, bibliographical and historical notes, exercises
15 probabilistic reasoning over time
15.1 time and uncertainty
15.2 inference in temporal models
15.3 hidden markov models
15.4 kalman filters
15.5 dynamic bayesian networks
15.6 keeping track of many objects
15.7 summary, bibliographical and historical notes, exercises
16 making simple decisions
16.1 combining beliefs and desires under uncertainty
16.2 the basis of utility theory
16.3 utility functions
16.4 multiattribute utility functions
16.5 decision networks
16.6 the value of information
16.7 decision-theoretic expert systems
16.8 summary, bibliographical and historical notes, exercises
17 making complex decisions
17.1 sequential decision problems
17.2 value iteration
17.3 policy iteration
17.4 partially observable mdps
17.5 decisions with multiple agents: game theory
17.6 mechanism design
17.7 summary, bibliographical and historical notes, exercises
V learning
18 learning from examples
18.1 forms of learning
18.2 supervised learning
18.3 leaming decision trees
18.4 evaluating and choosing the best hypothesis
18.5 the theory of learning
18.6 regression and classification with linear models
18.7 artificial neural networks
18.8 nonparametric models
18.9 support vector machines
18.10 ensemble learning
18.11 practical machine learning
18.12 summary, bibliographical and historical notes, exercises
19 knowledge in learning
19.1 a logical formulation of learning
19.2 knowledge in learning
19.3 explanation-based learning
19.4 learning using relevance information
19.5 inductive logic programming
19.6 summary, bibliographical and historical notes, exercis
20 learning probabilistic models
20.1 statistical learning
20.2 learning with complete data
20.3 learning with hidden variables: the em algorithm.
20.4 summary, bibliographical and historical notes, exercis
21 reinforcement learning
21. l introduction
21.2 passive reinforcement learning
21.3 active reinforcement learning
21.4 generalization in reinforcement learning
21.5 policy search
21.6 applications of reinforcement learning
21.7 summary, bibliographical and historical notes, exercis
VI communicating, perceiving, and acting
22 natural language processing
22.1 language models
22.2 text classification
22.3 information retrieval
22.4 information extraction
22.5 summary, bibliographical and historical notes, exercis
23 natural language for communication
23.1 phrase structure grammars
23.2 syntactic analysis (parsing)
23.3 augmented grammars and semantic interpretation
23.4 machine translation
23.5 speech recognition
23.6 summary, bibliographical and historical notes, exercis
24 perception
24.1 image formation
24.2 early image-processing operations
24.3 object recognition by appearance
24.4 reconstructing the 3d world
24.5 object recognition from structural information
24.6 using vision
24.7 summary, bibliographical and historical notes, exercises
25 robotics
25.1 introduction
25.2 robot hardware
25.3 robotic perception
25.4 planning to move
25.5 planning uncertain movements
25.6 moving
25.7 robotic software architectures
25.8 application domains
25.9 summary, bibliographical and historical notes, exercises
VII conclusions
26 philosophical foundations
26.1 weak ai: can machines act intelligently?
26.2 strong ai: can machines really think?
26.3 the ethics and risks of developing artificial intelligence
26.4 summary, bibliographical and historical notes, exercises
27 al: the present and future
27.1 agent components
27.2 agent architectures
27.3 are we going in the right direction?
27.4 what if ai does succeed?
a mathematical background
a. 1complexity analysis and o0 notation
a.2 vectors, matrices, and linear algebra
a.3 probability distributions
b notes on languages and algorithms
b.1defining languages with backus-naur form (bnf)
b.2describing algorithms with pseudocode
b.3online help
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