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Plain fundamental books on AI
07/22/08 at 18:40:18

As it turns out, I am way behind. So, would like to catch up. Any suggestions for general sort of books/texts that cover most of AI methods from practical point of view (don't want lengthy theorems etc..)

Or is it possible to get a practical grasp with books at all?

Amazon has come up with two choices:
1) Artificial Intelligence: A Guide to Intelligent Systems (Hardcover) by Michael Negnevitsky (Author):
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/reader/0321204662

2) Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (International Edition) (Paperback)
by Stuart Russell (Author), Peter Norvig (Author) :
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Artificial-Intelligence-Modern-Approach-International/dp...

Would really appreciate your opinions.

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Max F Dama Newbie Offline Posts: 12 Berkeley, CA Gender:	Re: Plain fundamental books on AI Reply #1 - 07/31/08 at 22:57:03 Yury, I highly recommend Russel and Norvig for self teaching. It's very readable. A good one on genetic algorithms is the introduction by Melanie Mitchell (it's on amazon). It has tons of applications and is also readable- including the math. Regards, Max
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qroach Full Member Offline Posts: 102 London Gender:	Re: Plain fundamental books on AI Reply #2 - 08/01/08 at 00:14:49 Thanks a lot for the suggestions. I didn't like Mitchell though. It is readable and easy going. But.... kind of very basic.
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Max F Dama Newbie Offline Posts: 12 Berkeley, CA Gender:	Re: Plain fundamental books on AI Reply #3 - 08/04/08 at 16:35:12 Yury, It gave me the background to read basically any of the current GA literature. But yes, definitely targeted toward novices. Regards, Max
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Reply #4 - 08/06/08 at 12:14:42

I thoroughly enjoyed reading Artificial Minds by Stan Franklin about 7 years ago (time flies!). I reckon it was a great book for its time. It is a very light read, i.e. the presentation level is fairly basic. The scope is quite wide and it has a lot of interesting facts from the history of AI. I really liked the Animal Minds chapter at the time.

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Algo Designer Forum Administrator Offline Nihil desperandum Posts: 182 Sydney Gender:	Re: Plain fundamental books on AI Reply #5 - 08/06/08 at 12:20:16 Swarm Intelligence by Russell C. Eberhart, Yuhui Shi, and James Kennedy is a great introduction to the topic of Swarm Intelligence.
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qroach Full Member Offline Posts: 102 London Gender:	Re: Plain fundamental books on AI Reply #6 - 08/06/08 at 13:43:43 Great! Thanks a lot!
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qroach Full Member Offline Posts: 102 London Gender:	Re: Plain fundamental books on AI Reply #7 - 08/14/08 at 17:40:27 Bought both "Artificial Minds" and Russel/Norvig's books - the content quality is beyond my original expectations (in a good sense, of course). Would recommend to others.
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kirppu Newbie Offline I like this forum! Posts: 15 Dublin Gender:	Re: Plain fundamental books on AI Reply #8 - 08/19/08 at 21:55:11 I would definitely recommend the following book Multi-objective Optimization Using Evolutionary Algorithms. Most of the codes are available on the author's website: http://www.iitk.ac.in/kangal/codes.shtml
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kirppu Newbie Offline I like this forum! Posts: 15 Dublin Gender:	Re: Plain fundamental books on AI Reply #9 - 08/19/08 at 22:08:14 Note that the following courses http://www.genetic-programming.com/coursemainpage.html#_Sources_of_Software cover the basics of genetic algorithms.
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qroach Full Member Offline Posts: 102 London Gender:	Re: Plain fundamental books on AI Reply #10 - 08/20/08 at 12:58:55 Thank you! Will have a look.
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Reply #11 - 09/08/08 at 13:23:06

The best book that I have read regarding statistical learning(aka machine learning or predictive learning) is Hastie et al, 2001, The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0387952845/trevorhastie-20

http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~tibs/ElemStatLearn/

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qroach Full Member Offline Posts: 102 London Gender:	Re: Plain fundamental books on AI Reply #12 - 09/09/08 at 10:43:43 thank you!
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statstrader Newbie Offline I like this forum! Posts: 27	Re: Plain fundamental books on AI Reply #13 - 01/23/09 at 00:07:26 Introduction to Machine Learning, by Ethem Alpaydin. http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Machine-Learning-Adaptive-Computation/dp/0262... Outstanding Overview IMO.
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qroach Full Member Offline Posts: 102 London Gender:	Re: Plain fundamental books on AI Reply #14 - 01/23/09 at 13:20:08 I will grab this as well when come off other books. Thanks!
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