David L. Poole, Alan K. Mackworth, Artificial Intelligence: Foundations of Computational Agents, Cambridge University Press, 2010.

摘要

The textbook Artificial Intelligence: Foundations of Computational Agents is a general introduction to AI that is aimed at survey-style courses for upper year undergraduates and graduate students and is also suitable for self-study for those with a general computer science or mathematical background. As many readers may not wish to know all of the details but rather just the big picture, let me begin with an executive summary of my review. Quite simply stated, the book is excellent. The writing, use of examples, topic coverage, level of detail, exercises at the end of each chapter, and supplementary online code and materials, are all, in my view, outstanding. I highly recommend the book for adoption in AI courses and for self-study. Remarkably and generously, while the book can be purchased in hardcopy form, the entire textbook is also available online for free at http://artint.info (which has proved very popular with my students). And now for the details...