My book on Artificial Intelligence

[Deepak Khemani]

Dear All,

Tata McGrawHill has just brought out a text book on AI that I have been working on. The title is "A First Course in Artificial Intelligence". An email from TMH with some details is enclosed. The book is a South Asian edition.

A note about the title. The phrase "a first course" is intended to be in the sense of something that one starts off with, implying that it is meant for the first time reader. It does not mean a one semester course, which I hope you will agree, is not quite enough to do justice to the subject.

I look forward to comments and feedback from the AI community.

Best regards,

Deepak Khemani        
Dept of CS&E                
IIT Madras                        
Chennai 600036, India 

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	Artificial Intelligence ISBN: 9781259029981 Pages: 944
Author:  Deepak Khemani Department of computer Science and Engineering, IIT Madras Buy Now | Flipkart | TMH Shop
As the title says, A First Course in Artificial Intelligence is aptly suited for both undergraduate and postgraduate courses involving Artificial Intelligence. The book explores from scratch the algorithms and representations needed for building intelligent systems. The textbook follows a bottom-up approach exploring the basic strategies - starting with search based methods & then moving on to knowledge based methods - needed for problem solving and focuses primarily on the intelligence part. The only background required to comprehend the book is familiarity with programming. Easy explanations for the concepts bolstered with illuminative illustrations make the book an essential reading for the budding artificial intelligence students, seasoned practitioners and researchers; all alike. Visit our website   |  Email Feedback
Key Features: From Search to Knowledge Based approach. Lucid Narrative style to explain key AI concepts like Heuristic Search, Game Playing, Constraint Satisfaction, Logic and Knowledge Representation, Memory, Handling Uncertainty and Machine Learning. Detailed and well structured algorithms: Uses language independent pseudo-code algorithms at a level easy to understand and can be easily coded in any programming language. Latest topics like Planning algorithms, Swarm Intelligence, Tabu search, Semantic Web, Natural Language and Text Processing, Case Based Reasoning, Probabilistic Reasoning, and Qualitative Reasoning. Over 470 Illustrations and 290 Exercise Problems to help the readers understand and test their grasp on concepts.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 State Space Search Chapter 3 Heuristic Search Chapter 4 Randomized Search and Emergent Systems Chapter 5 Finding Optimal Paths Chapter 6 Problem Decomposition Chapter 7 Planning Chapter 8 Game Playing Chapter 9 Constraint Satisfaction Problems Chapter 10 Advanced Planning Methods Chapter 11 Knowledge Based Reasoning Chapter 12 Logic and Inferences Chapter 13 Concepts and Language Chapter 14 Structured Knowledge Representations Chapter 15 Memory and Experience: Case Based Reasoning Chapter 16 Natural Language Processing Chapter 17 Reasoning Under Uncertainty Chapter 18 Machine Learning
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[Biplav Srivastava]

Hi,

I have gone through the book. Any introductory book on AI will always be compared with the influential textbook by Rusell and Norvig. Still, the book is able to stand out due to a very accessible style and exposition, and additional scope. Further, the examples relate to Indian context and an insightful historical perspective.

Overall, a commendable effort.

Regards,
Biplav

PS: (Acknowledgement: A copy of the book was made available to me by the publishers.)

[Deepak Khemani]

Thank you Biplav.

Best,

Deepak

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[ajay mestry]

Can i please get a pdf/soft copy of this book

It would be a great help.