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Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach

(Third edition) by Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig

The leading textbook in Artificial Intelligence.
Used in over 1400 universities in over 125 countries.
The 22nd most cited computer science publication on Citeseer (and 4th most cited publication of this century).

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  • Table of Contents

         [Full Contents]
         Preface [html]
    Part I Artificial Intelligence
              1 Introduction ... 1
              2 Intelligent Agents ... 34
    Part II Problem Solving
              3 Solving Problems by Searching ... 64
              4 Beyond Classical Search ... 120
              5 Adversarial Search ... 161
              6 Constraint Satisfaction Problems ... 202
    Part III Knowledge and Reasoning
              7 Logical Agents ... 234
              8 First-Order Logic ... 285
              9 Inference in First-Order Logic ... 322
            10 Classical Planning ...366
            11 Planning and Acting in the Real World ... 401
            12 Knowledge Representation ... 437
    Part IV Uncertain Knowledge and Reasoning
            13 Quantifying Uncertainty ... 480
            14 Probabilistic Reasoning ... 510
            15 Probabilistic Reasoning over Time ... 566
            16 Making Simple Decisions ... 610
            17 Making Complex Decisions ...645
    Part V Learning
            18 Learning from Examples ...693
            19 Knowledge in Learning ... 768
            20 Learning Probabilistic Models ... 802
            21 Reinforcement Learning ... 830
    Part VI Communicating, Perceiving, and Acting
            22 Natural Language Processing ... 860
            23 Natural Language for Communication ... 888
            24 Perception ... 928
            25 Robotics ... 971
    Part VII Conclusions
            26 Philosophical Foundations ... 1020
            27 AI: The Present and Future ... 1044
             A Mathematical Background [pdf] ... 1053
             B Notes on Languages and Algorithms [pdf] ... 1060
                 Bibliography [pdf and histograms] ... 1063
                 Index [html or pdf] ... 1109