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Newsgroups: comp.ai,news.answers,comp.answers Path: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!enterpoop.mit.edu!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!das-news.harvard.edu!cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!crabapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu!mkant From: mkant+@cs.cmu.edu (Mark Kantrowitz) Subject: FAQ: Artificial Intelligence Bibliography 3/6 [Monthly posting] Message-ID: <ai-faq-3.text_739954907@cs.cmu.edu> Followup-To: poster Summary: Bibliography of AI introductory texts, overviews and references Sender: news@cs.cmu.edu (Usenet News System) Supersedes: <ai-faq-3.text_737277778@cs.cmu.edu> Nntp-Posting-Host: a.gp.cs.cmu.edu Reply-To: mkant+ai-faq@cs.cmu.edu Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1993 07:01:58 GMT Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.Edu Expires: Sun, 25 Jul 1993 07:01:47 GMT Lines: 1317 Xref: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu comp.ai:17387 news.answers:9339 comp.answers:974 Archive-name: ai-faq/part3 Last-Modified: Thu May 13 12:42:00 1993 by Mark Kantrowitz Version: 1.7 ;;; **************************************************************** ;;; Answers to Questions about Artificial Intelligence ************* ;;; **************************************************************** ;;; Written by Mark Kantrowitz ;;; ai-faq-3.text -- 48293 bytes This part of the AI FAQ provides a bibliography of good introductory texts and overviews of AI and specific subfields of AI. If you feel that there is a reference or set of references which should be added to this FAQ, or references which should be removed, please send email to mkant+ai-faq@cs.cmu.edu. When suggesting references to be included in a particular subfield, only suggest the best two or three references (or a particularly well-written overview). It is NOT the intention of this listing to be a comprehensive AI bibliography. Part 3 (Bibliography): Bibliography of introductory texts, overviews and references Addresses and phone numbers for major AI publishers Outline: [1] AI in general (Introductions, Overviews) [1a] Major AI Publishers [2] Search [3] Knowledge Representation [4] Logic [5] Planning [6] Natural Language Processing (NLP) [7] Connectionism and Neural Nets [8] Machine Learning [9] Case-Based Reasoning [10] Genetic Algorithms [11] Production Systems, Expert Systems and Match Algorithms [12] Integrated AI Architectures [13] Fuzzy Logic [14] Artificial Life [15] Qualitative Physics and Model Based Reasoning [16] Task-specific Architectures for Problem Solving [17] Automated Deduction [18] Probabilistic Reasoning [19] Nonmonotonic Reasoning and Truth Maintenance Systems (TMS) [20] Robotics and Computer Vision [21] Distributed AI [22] User/Agent Modeling [23] Philosophy of AI [24] What is Cyc? [25] Miscellaneous: PhD Theses [26] Videotapes and Magazines Search for [#] to get to question number # quickly. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: [1] AI in general (Introductions, Overviews) Introductory texts: Elaine Rich & Kevin Knight, "Artificial Intelligence", 2nd edition, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1991. ISBN 0-07-052263-4 Patrick Henry Winston, "Artificial Intelligence", Third Edition, Addison Wesley, Reading, MA, 1992, ISBN 0-201-53377-4. Matthew L. Ginsberg, "Essentials of AI", Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1993, ISBN 1-55860-221-6, 430 pages, $49.95. Overviews and References: Shapiro, Stuart C. (ed), "Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence", 2nd Edition, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1992. (1st ed, 1987) Alan Bundy, editor, "Catalogue of Artificial Intelligence Techniques", 3rd Edition, Springer Verlag, 1990, ISBN 0-387-52959-4, 179 pages, $29.50. Avron Barr and Edward A. Feigenbaum, "The Handbook of Artificial Intelligence", volumes 1-4, Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1986. Sundermeyer, K., "Knowledge-Based Systems: Terminology and References", Wissenschaftverlag, 1991. ISBN 3-411-14941-8 Bonnie Lynn Webber and Nils J. Nilsson, "Readings in Artificial Intelligence", Morgan Kaufmann, San Mateo, CA, 1981. Raymond Kurzweil's "The Age of Intelligent Machines", MIT Press, 1990, 565 pages, ISBN 0-262-11121-7, $39.95. [General Introduction] Glossaries and Dictionaries: Raoul N. Smith, editor, "The Facts on File Dictionary of Artificial Intelligence", Facts on File, New York, 1989, 211 pages. ISBN 0-8160-1593-3. Jerry M. Rosenberg, "Dictionary of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics", Wiley, New York, 1986, 203 pages. Ellen Thro, "The Artificial Intelligence Dictionary", Microtrend Books, San Marcos, CA, 1991, 407 pages, ISBN 0-915391-36-8. P610.8, "Draft Standard Glossary of Artificial Intelligence Terminology" referenced in "IEEE Std 610.12-1990, IEEE Standard Glossary of Software Technology, December 1990". Colin Beardon "Artificial Intelligence Terminology: a reference guide" Ellis Horwood Series in Artificial Intelligence Foundations and Concepts. ISBN 0-7458-0763-1 Older general introductions and overviews: Nils J. Nilsson, "Principles of Artificial Intelligence", Tioga Publishing Company, Palo Alto, CA, 1980. Eugene Charniak and Drew V. McDermott, "Introduction to Artificial Intelligence", Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1985. Firebaugh, Morris W., "Artificial Intelligence: A Knowledge-Based Approach", PWS-Kent, Massachusetts, 1989. ISBN 0-87835-325-9 Emphasis on the role of knowledge in the design of intelligent systems. Includes intro to AI programming languages, extensive discussion of expert systems and robotics, survey of parallel machine architectures, and identification of bottlenecks in the implementation of useful AI systems. Surveys: Howard E. Shrobe, editor, "Exploring Artificial Intelligence", Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, San Mateo, CA, 1988. (Survey talks from the AAAI 1986 and 1987 conferences.) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: [1a] Major AI Publishers Ablex Publishing Corporation 355 Chestnut Street, Norwood, NJ 07648-2090 201-767-8455/8450 Fax 201-767-6717 Academic Press 1250 Sixth Avenue, San Diego, CA 92101 Orders: 800-321-5068 Fax: 619-699-6715 Addison Wesley Publishing Company, Inc. Route 128, 1 Jacob Way, Reading, MA 01867 800-447-2226 (617-944-3700) Fax: 617-944-8243 Benjamin Cummings Publishing Company 2727 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025 415-854-0300 390 Bridge Parkway, Redwood City, CA 94065 800-552-2499, 415-594-4400 Orders: Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Company, Inc., Reading, MA 01867, 800-447-2226, fax 800-333-3328 Canadian Orders: Addison-Wesley Publishers Ltd., PO Box 580, 26 Prince Andrew Place, Don Mills Ontario, CANADA M3C 2T8 416-447-5101, fax 416-443-0948 International Orders: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, International Publishing Group, Jacob Way, Reading, MA 01867 617-944-3700, fax 617-944-0826 Information/Examination Copies: 800-950-2665 Blackwell Scientific Publications, Inc. 3 Cambridge Center, Suite 208, Cambridge, MA 02142 617-225-0401 Fax: 617-225-0412 Osney Mead, PO Box 88, Oxford, 0X2 0EL, UK 0865-240201 Cambridge University Press 40 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10022 Orders: 800-221-4512, 212-924-3900 Columbia University Press 562 West 113th Street, New York, NY 10025 800-944-8648 Computer Science Press, Inc. 41 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10010-3546 212-576-9400 Computing Reviews 11 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036 Cornell University Press Box 250, 124 Roberts Place, Ithica, NY 14851 800-666-2211 Digital Press 12 Crosby Drive, Bedford, MA 01730 617-276-1536 Elsevier Science Publishing 655 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10017 212-633-3827/3650 PO Box 211, Amsterdam, 1000 AE, The Netherlands 020-580-3641 Fax: 020-580-3769 Harvard University Press 79 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 617-495-2600/2480 Houghton Miflin Company One Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02142 617-252-3000 One Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02108 800-225-3362 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 605 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10158 212-850-6000 Kluwer Academic Publishers 101 Philip Drive, Norwell, MA 02061 617-871-6600 Fax: 617-871-6528. Email: kluwer@world.std.com Ftp-server: world.std.com:Kluwer/{journals,books} The Kluwer ftp server offers the complete table of contents for Kluwer's EE & CS journals, the Aims & Scope, Instruction for Authors, Ordering information, and LaTeX style files. This service can also be reached using gopher. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. 365 Broadway, Hillsdale, NJ 07642 800-926-6579, (201-666-4110) Fax: 201-666-2394 Little Brown & Company 34 Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02108 617-227-0730 Fax: 617-227-4633 Macmillan Publishing 866 Third Avenue, Third Floor, New York, NY 10022 800-257-5755 (212-702-2000) McGraw Hill Book Company 1221 Avenue of the Americas, 43rd Floor, New York, NY 10020 800-442-9685 (212-512-2000) MIT Press 55 Hayward Street, Cambridge, MA 02139 617-253-5642 Orders: 800-356-0343 (617-625-8569) Fax: 617-625-6660 Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc. Department E17, 2929 Campus Drive, Suite 260, San Mateo, CA 94403 Orders: 800-745-7323 (415-578-9911) Fax: 415-578-0672 Email: morgan@unix.sri.com Their "Readings in X" series is a good source of information on various AI topics. (Many of them are listed below.) Oxford University Press 200 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016 800-451-7556 Pergamon Press 395 Saw Mill River Road, Elmsford, NY 10523 800-257-5755 (914-592-7700) Prentice Hall Inc. College Division, 440 Sylvan Avenue, Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632 201-592-2377 Orders: 800-223-1360 (fax to 800-495-6991) Fax: 201-461-4573 Email: books@prenhall.com Princeton University Press 41 William Street, Princeton, NJ 08540 800-777-4726 Random House Publishing 201 East 50th Street, New York, NY 10022 212-751-2600 Springer Verlag 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010 800-777-4643 (201-348-4033) University Microfilms International 300 North Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 313-761-4700 Copies of PhD theses off of microfilm. University of Chicago Press 5801 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637 800-621-2736 (312-702-7700) Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, Inc. 115 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10003 212-254-3232 W. H. Freeman & Company 41 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10010 212-576-9400 Fax: 212-689-2383 W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. 500 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010 800-233-4830 (212-354-5500) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: [2] Search [See also the Barr and Feigenbaum's Handbook of AI, chapter 1; Nilsson's Principles of AI, sections 2.4.1 through 2.4.4 (A*), sections 3.1 and 3.2 (AND/OR trees and AO*); and the Mackworth paper in Readings in Artificial Intelligence.] Pearl, J. and Korf, R. E., "Search techniques", Annual Review of Computer Science, volume 2, J.F. Traub, B.J. Grosz, B.W. Lampson and N.J. Nilsson, editors, pages 451-467, Annual Reviews Inc., Palo Alto, CA, 1987. L. Kanal and V. Kumar, "Search in Artificial Intelligence", Springer-Verlag, 1988. Hans J. Berliner, "The B* Tree Search Algorithm: A Best-First Proof Procedure", Artificial Intelligence, 12(1):23-40, May 1979. Also appears in "Readings in Artificial Intelligence". Pearl, J., "Heuristics: Intelligent Search Strategies for Computer Problem Solving", Addison-Wesley, 1984. Kirkpatrick, S. Gelatt, CD, and Vecchi, MP, "Optimization by Simulated Annealing", Science 220(4589):671-680, 1983. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: [3] Knowledge Representation [Several papers in "Readings in Artificial Intelligence" are relevant, including S. Amarel "On Representations of Problems on Reasoning about Actions" and P.J. Hayes "The Frame Problem and Related Problems in AI".] Nick Cercone and Gordon McCalla, editors, "The Knowledge Frontier: Essays in the Representation of Knowledge", Springer-Verlag, New York, 1987. 512 pages, $40.00, ISBN 0-38796-557-2. (This is the much revised version of a special issue of COMPUTER on KR.) Brachman, Ronald J., Levesque, Hector J. and Reiter, Ray, editors, Special Volume on Knowledge Representation, Artificial Intelligence 49(1-3), January, 1991. Brachman, Ronald J. and Levesque, Hector J., editors, "Readings in Knowledge Representation", Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1985. Ronald J. Brachman and James G. Schmolze, "An overview of the KL-ONE knowledge representation system", Cognitive Science, 9:171-216, 1985. Ronald J. Brachman, Richard E. Fikes, and Hector J. Levesque, "KRYPTON: A functional approach to knowledge representation", IEEE Computer, 16:67-73, 1983. Ronald J. Brachman, "On the epistemological status of semantic networks", in N.V. Findler, editor, Associative Networks, pp. 318-353. New York: Academic Press, 1979. Allen Newell, "The Knowledge Level", Artificial Intelligence, 18:87-127, 1982. Allen Newell and Herb Simon, "Computer Science as Empirical Enquiry: Symbols and Search", Communications of the ACM, 19(3):113-126, 1976. Penny Nii, "Blackboard Systems", AI Magazine 7(3), 1986. Ronald J. Brachman, " ``I lied about the trees'', or, defaults and definitions in knowledge representation", AI Magazine 6(3):80-93, 1985. W.A. Woods, "What's in a link: Foundations for semantic networks", In D.G. Bobrow & A. Collins (Eds.), "Representation and Understanding", Academic Press, New York, 1975. Reprinted in "Readings in Cognitive Science", Collins & Smith (eds.), section 2.2. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: [4] Logic Genesereth, M.R. and Nilsson, N.J., "Logical Foundations of Artificial Intelligence", Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Los Altos, CA, 1987. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: [6] Natural Language Processing (NLP) General: Gazdar, G. and Mellish, C., "Natural Language Processing in Lisp: An Introduction to Computational Linguistics", Addison-Wesley, Reading, Massachusetts, 1989. (There are three different editions of the book, one for Lisp, one for Prolog, and one for Pop-11.) Grosz, B.J., Sparck-Jones, K., and Webber, B.L., "Readings in Natural Language Processing", Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Los Altos, CA, 1986. Robert C. Berwick, "Computational Linguistics", MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1989, ISBN 0262-02266-4. Brady, Michael, and Berwick, Robert C., "Computational Models of Discourse", MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1983. Klaus K. Obermeier, "Natural Language Processing Technologies in Artificial Intelligence: The Science and Industry Perspective", John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1989. Allen, James F., "Natural Language Understanding", The Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Company, Menlo Park, California, (Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Reading, Massachusetts), 1988, 550 pages, ISBN 0-8053-0330-8. [A new edition is forthcoming.] Terry Winograd, "Language as a Cognitive Process", Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1983. Schank, R. and Abelson, R. "Scripts, Plans, Goals, and Understandings," Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, New Jersey, 1977. Terminology: David Crystal, "A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics", 3rd Edition, Basil Blackwell Publishers, New York, 1991. Parsing: Tomita, M. (Editor), "Current Issues in Parsing Technology", Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, MA, 1991. Tomita, M., "An Efficient Context-Free Parsing Algorithm", Computational Linguistics 13:31-46, 1987. Marcus, M. "A Theory of Syntactic Recognition for Natural Language," The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1980. Pereira, F. and Sheiber, S. "Prolog and Natural-Language Analysis," Center for the Study of Language and Information, 1987. Probabilistic Parsing: Wright, J., "LR Parsing of Probabilistic Grammars with Input Uncertainty for Speech Recognition", Computer Speech and Language 4:297-323, 1990. Ted Briscoe and John Carroll, "Generalised Probabilistic LR Parsing of Natural Language (Corpora) with Unification-based Grammars", University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, Technical Report Number 224, 1991. Natural Language Understanding: E. Charniak, "Passing Markers: A Theory of Contextual Influence in Language Comprehension", Cognitive Science, 7:171-190, 1983. Bertram C. Bruce, "Case systems for natural language", Artificial Intelligence 6:327-360, 1975. Yorick Wilks, "A Preferential, Pattern-Seeking, Semantics For Natural Language Inference", Artificial Intelligence, 6:53-74, 1975. Dyer, M. "In-Depth Understanding: A Computer Model of Integrated Processing for Narrative Comprehension," MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1983. Aravind Joshi, Bonnie Webber and Ivan Sag, "Elements of Discourse Understanding", Cambridge University Press, New York, 1981. Grosz, Barbara J. and Sidner, Candace L., "Attention, Intention, and the Structure of Discourse", Computational Linguistics 12(3):175-204, 1986. Cohen, P. R., Morgan, J. and Pollack, M., editors, "Intentions in Communication", MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1990. Natural Language Interfaces: Raymond C. Perrault and Barbara J. Grosz, "Natural Language Interfaces", Annual Review of Computer Science, volume 1, J.F. Traub, editor, pages 435-452, Annual Reviews Inc., Palo Alto, CA, 1986. Natural Language Generation: McKeown, Kathleen R. and Swartout, William R., "Language Generation and Explanation", in Zock, M. and Sabah, G., editors, Advances in Natural Language Generation, Volume 1, Pages 1-51, Ablex Publishing Company, Norwood, NJ, 1988. (Overview of the state of the art in natural language generation.) There are several books published as a result of the international workshops on natural language generation. Speech: John Allen, Sharon Hunnicut and Dennis H. Klatt, "From Text to Speech: The MITalk System", Cambridge University Press, 1987. [Synthesis, precursor of DECtalk.] Frank Fallside and William A. Woods (editors), "Computer Speech Processing" Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1985. X. D. Huang, Y. Ariki and M. A. Jack, "Hidden Markov Models for Speech Recognition", Edinburgh University Press, 1990. [Analysis] A. Nejat Ince (editor), "Digital Speech Processing: Speech Coding, Synthesis, and Recognition", Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, 1992. [Analysis and Synthesis] Dennis H. Klatt, "Review of Text-To-Speech Conversion for English", Journal of the Acoustic Society of America (JASA), 82:737-793, September 1987. [Synthesis] Kai-Fu Lee, "Automatic Speech Recognition: The Development of the SPHINX System", Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, MA, 1989. [Analysis] S. E. Levinson, L. R. Rabiner and M. M. Sondhi, "An Introduction to the Application of the Theory of Probabilistic Functions of a Markov Process to Automatic Speech Recognition" in Bell Syst. Tech. Journal 62(4):1035-1074, April 1983. [Analysis] R. P. Lippmann, "Review of Neural Networks for Speech Recognition", Neural Computation, 1(1):1-38, 1989. [Analysis] Douglas O'Shaughnessy, "Speech Communication: Human and Machine" Addison-Wesley, MA, 1987. [Analysis and Synthesis] Lawrence R. Rabiner and Ronald W. Schafer, "Digital Processing of Speech Signals", Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1978. [Analysis and Synthesis] Lawrence R. Rabiner and Biing-Hwang Juang, "Fundamentals of Speech Recognition", Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1993. ISBN 0-13-015157-2. [Analysis] Ronald W. Schafer and John D. Markel (editors), "Speech Analysis", IEEE Press, New York, 1979. [Analysis] Alex Waibel and Kai-Fu Lee (editors), "Readings in Speech Recognition" Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, San Mateo, CA, 1990. [Analysis] Alex Waibel, "Prosody and Speech Recognition", Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, San Mateo, CA, 1988. [Analysis] Linguistics: Vivian J. Cook, "Chomsky's Universal Grammar: An Introduction", Basil Blackwell Publisher, New York, 1988, 201 pages. Victoria Fromkin and Robert Rodman, "An Introduction to Language", Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, New York, 4th edition, 1988, 474 pages. Ralph Grishman, "Computational Linguistics: An Introduction", Cambridge University Press, New York, 1986, 193 pages. Liliane M.V. Haegeman, "Introduction to Government and Binding Theory", Basil Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, 1991, 618 pages. Michael A. K. Halliday, "An Introduction to Functional Grammar", Edward Arnold, London, 1985. Geoffrey C. Horrocks, "Generative Grammar", Longman, London, 1987, 339 pages. Andrew Radford, "Transformational Grammar: A First Course", Cambridge University Press, New York, 1988, 625 pages. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: [5] Planning Intros, Overviews, Paper Collections: James Allen, James Hendler and Austin Tate, editors, "Readings in Planning", Morgan-Kaufmann Publishers, 1990. James Hendler, Austin Tate and Mark Drummond, "AI Planning: Systems and Techniques", AI Magazine, May, 1990. (Review article.) Georgeff, M. P., "Planning," in Annual Review of Computer Science, Annual Reviews Inc., pages 359-400, 1987. Drew McDermott, "Robot Planning", AI Magazine 13:2, Summer 1992, pp. 55-79. William R. Swartout, "DARPA Workshop on Planning", AI Magazine, 9(2):115-131, Summer, 1988. (Survey of current work and issues in planning.) [See also Waldinger's "Achieving several goals simultaneously", in "Readings in Artificial Intelligence".] STRIPS: Fikes, R.E. and Nilsson, N.J., "STRIPS: A new approach to the application of theorem proving to problem solving", Artificial Intelligence 2:189-208, 1971. ABSTRIPS: Sacerdoti, E. D., "Planning in a Hierarchy of Abstraction Spaces," Artificial Intelligence, 5:115-135, 1974. Conjunctive Goals: Chapman, D., "Planning for Conjunctive Goals", Artificial Intelligence 32:333-377, 1987. NOAH: Sacerdoti, E., "A Structure for Plans and Behavior", Artificial Intelligence, pages 1-65, American Elsevier, New York, 1977. Sacerdoti, E. D., "The Nonlinear Nature of Plans," Proc. of the Fourth Joint Conf. on Artificial Intelligence, Morgan Kaufmann, 1975, 206-214. Reactive Planning: Agre P.E. and Chapman, D., "Pengi: An Implementation of a Theory of Activity", in Proceedings of the Sixth National Conference on Aritificial Intelligence, Seattle, WA, July 1987. Georgeoff, M.P. and Lansky, A.L., "Reactive Reasoning and Planning", in Proceedings of the Sixth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Seattle, WA, pages 677-682, July 1987. Simmons, R.G., "A theory of debugging plans and interpretations", in Proceedings of the Seventh National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-88), Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Palo Alto, CA, pages 94-99, 1988. Case-based Planning: Hammond, K., "Case-based Planning: Viewing Planning as a Memory Task", Academic Press, Cambridge, MA, 1989. Miscellaneous: Stefik, M.J., "Planning with Constraints", Artificial Intelligence 15:111-140 and 16:141-170, 1981. Wilkins, D.E., "Domain-Independent Planning: Representation and Plan Generation", Artificial Intelligence 22:269-301, 1984. R. Wilensky, "Meta-Planning: Representing and Using Knowledge About Planning in Problem Solving and Natural Language Understanding", Cognitive Science 5:197-233, 1981. Reprinted in Readings in Cognitive Science, Collins & Smith (eds.), section 5.6. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: [7] Connectionism and Neural Nets Introductions and Overviews: Geoffrey E. Hinton, "Connectionist Learning Procedures", Artificial Intelligence 40(1-3):185-234, 1989. Reprinted in J. Carbonell, editor, "Machine Learning: Paradigms and Methods", MIT Press, 1990. Also appears as Technical Report CMU-CS-87-115 (version 2), Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, December 1987. Kevin Knight, "A gentle introduction to subsymbolic computation: Connectionism for the AI researcher". Technical Report CMU-CS-89-150, Carnegie Mellon University, School of Computer Science, Pittsburgh, PA, May 30, 1989. Scott Fahlman and Geoffrey Hinton, "Connectionist Architectures for Artificial Intelligence", IEEE Computer 20(1):100-109, January 1987. Hertz, J., Krogh, A., and Palmer, R.G., "Introduction to the Theory of Neural Computation", Addison-Wesley, 1991. 327 pages. ISBN 0-201-51560-1. Hecht-Nielsen, Robert, "Neurocomputing", Addison-Wesley, 1990, 433 pages. ISBN 0-201-09355-3. Paper Collections: Rumelhart, D.E, and McClelland, J.L., editors, "Parallel Distributed Processing: Explorations in the Microstructure of Cognition" (Vol. 1: Foundations; Vol. 2: Psychological and Biological Models), Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1986. Waltz, D., and Feldman, J.A., "Connectionist Models and their Implications: Readings from _Cognitive Science_", Ablex, 1988. Mark Watson, "Common Lisp Modules -- Artificial Intelligence in the Era of Neural Networks and Chaos Theory", Springer-Verlag, 1991. Includes code written in Macintosh Common Lisp and uses the Mac graphical interface (the modules are portable to other Common Lisp implementations, but without the graphics). Anderson, J.A., and Rosenfeld, E., editors, "Neurocomputing: Foundations of Research", Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 1988. Also "Neurocomputing Vol. 2: Directions for Research", Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 1991. Hinton, G.E., and Anderson, J.A., editors, "Parallel Models of Associative Memory" (updated edition), Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1989. Hinton, G.E., editor, "Connectionist Symbol Processing", MIT Press, 1990. [Was a special issue of Artificial Intelligence, vol. 46, nos. 1-2.] Touretzky, D.S., editor, "Neural Information Processing Systems", volumes 1-4 (1988-1991), Morgan Kaufmann. [Proceedings from the premier conference on neural networks.] Connectionist Language Processing: See the special issue of _Connection Science_, Volume 2 Numbers 1-2, 1990. Also the Hinton collection "Connectionist Symbol Processing", above. Connectionist Cognitive Science: Barnden, J.A., and Pollack, J.B., "Advances in Connectionist and Neural Computation Theory Vol. 1: High-Level Connectionist Models", Ablex, 1991. Quinlan, P., "Connectionism and Psychology: A Psychological Perspective on New Connectionist Research", University of Chicago Press, 1991. Waltz, D., and Feldman, J.A., editors, "Connectionist Models and their Implications: Readings from _Cognitive Science_", Ablex, 1988. Philosophical Foundations: Pinker, S., and Mehler, J, editors, "Connections and Symbols", MIT Press, 1988. [Was Cognition special issue Volume 28, 1988] Clark, A., "Microcognition: Philosophy, Cognitive Science, and Parallel Distributed Processing", MIT Press, 1989. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: [8] Machine Learning General: J. G. Carbonell, editor, "Machine Learning: Paradigms and Methods", MIT Press, Cambridge, MA 1990. Tom Mitchell, Jaime G. Carbonell, and Ryszard S. Michalski, "Machine Learning: A guide to current research", Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, 1986. J. W. Shavlik and T. D. Dietterich, editors, "Readings in Machine Learning", Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1990. [See also the article on Machine Learning from the Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence, pages 464-485.] Decision Trees: Quinlan, J. Ross, "Induction of Decision Trees", Machine Learning 1:81-106, 1986. Quinlan, J. Ross, "C4.5: Programs for Machine Learning", Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1992. ISBN 1-55860-238-0. $44.95 US, $49.45 International. For a slight additional charge ($25), the book comes with software (ISBN 1-55860-240-2). For software only, (ISBN 1-55860-239-9) $34.95 US, $38.45 International. Probabilistic Clustering: Fisher, D.H., "Knowledge Acquisition Via Incremental Conceptual Clustering", Machine Learning 2:139-172, 1987. (Probabilistic clustering methods.) Clancey, W.J., "Classification Problem Solving", Proceedings of the National Conference on Aritificial Intelligence, 49-55, Los Altos, CA, Morgan Kaufmann. 1984. Version Spaces: Tom M. Mitchell, "Generalization as Search", Artificial Intelligence 18:203-226, 1982. Machine Discovery: Langley, P., and Zytkow, J. M., "Data-driven approaches to empirical discovery", Artificial Intelligence 40:283-312, 1989. Langley, P., Simon, H.A., Bradshaw, G.L., and Zytkow, J.M., "Scientific Discovery: Computational Explorations of the Creative Processes", MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1987. Langley, P., Simon, H.A. and Bradshaw, G.L., "Heuristics for Empirical Discovery", in L. Bolc, editor, Computational Models of Learning, Springer-Verlag, 1987. Also appears as CMU CS Tech Report CMU-CS-84-14. Chunking: Laird J.E., Rosenbloom, P.S. and Newell, A., "Chunking in SOAR: The Anatomy of a General Learning Mechanism", Machine Learning 1:1-46, 1986. Explanation-Based Learning: Mitchell, Tom M., Keller, R. M., and Kedar-Cabelli, S. T., "Explanation-based learning: A unified view", Machine Learning 1:47-80, 1986. Derivational Analogy: Carbonell, J. G., "Derivational analogy: A theory of reconstructive problem solving and expertise acquisition." In R.S. Michalski, Jaime G. Carbonell, and Tom M. Mitchell, editors, Machine Learning: An Artificial Intelligence Approach, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, San Mateo, CA, 1986. Theoretical Results: Leslie G. Valiant, "A theory of the learnable", Communications of the ACM, 27(11):1134--1142, 1984. Haussler, D., "Quantifying Inductive Bias: AI Learning Algorithms and Valiant's Learning Framework", Artificial Intelligence, 36:177-221, 1988. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: [9] Case-Based Reasoning Roger C. Schank, "Dynamic Memory: A Theory of Reminding and Learning in Computers and People", Cambridge University Press, New York, NY, 1982. Roger C. Schank and C. Riesbeck, "Inside Case-Based Reasoning", Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ, 1989. Craig Stanfill and David Waltz, "Toward Memory-Based Reasoning", Communications of the ACM, 29(12):1213-1228, December 1986. (Memory-based reasoning.) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: [10] Genetic Algorithms For an extended bibliography, see the FAQ posting for comp.ai.genetic. Overviews: L. B. Booker, D.E. Goldberg and J.H. Holland, "Classifier Systems and Genetic Algorithms", Artificial Intelligence 40(1-3):235-282, September 1989. David E. Goldberg, "Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization, and Machine Learning", Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1989, 412 pages. ISBN 0-201-15767-5. Davis, Lawrence (editor), "Handbook of Genetic Algorithms", Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 1991, ISBN 0-442-00173-8. See also the July 1992 issue of Scientific American. Collections: Davis, Lawrence, editor, "Genetic Algorithms and Simulated Annealing", Morgan Kaufmann, 1989. Rawlins, G., editor, "Foundations of Genetic Algorithms", Morgan Kaufmann, 1991. See also the Proceedings of the First/Second/Third/Fourth International Conference on Genetic Algorithms, published by Lawrence Erlbaum. Miscellaneous: Holland, J.H. "Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems", University of Michigan Press, 1975. Reprinted by MIT Press, 1992. Holland, J.H., Holyoak, K.J., Nisbett, R.E., and Thagard, P.R., "Induction: Processes of Inference, Learning, and Discovery", MIT Press, 1988. Michalewicz, Z., "Genetic algorithms + Data Structures = Evolution Programs", Springer-Verlag, New York, 1992. Genetic Programming: Koza, John R., "Genetic Programming: On the programming of computers by means of natural selection", MIT Press, 1992, 819 pages. ISBN 0-262-11170-5 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: [11] Production Systems, Expert Systems and Match Algorithms Overviews: Bruce G. Buchanan and Edward H. Shortliffe, "Rule-Based Expert Systems: The MYCIN Experiments of the Stanford Heuristic Programming Project", Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1985. The Davis and King paper (chapter 4, "An overview of production systems") provides a good overview. Frederick Hayes-Roth, "The knowledge based expert system: A tutorial", IEEE Computer 17(9):11-28, 1984. Bruce G. Buchanan and R.O. Duda, "Principles of Rule-Based Systems", Tech Report HPP-82-14, 1982. (Discusses the design of expert systems, including representation, inference, and uncertainty management. Examples from numerous specific systems, and discusses which problems are suitable for attack by rule-based systems.) OPS5: Charles L. Forgy, "OPS5 User's Manual", Technical Report CMU-CS-81-135, Carnegie Mellon University, School of Computer Science, Pittsburgh, PA 1981. RETE: Charles L. Forgy, "RETE: A fast algorithm for the many pattern/many object pattern match problem", Artificial Intelligence 19(1):17-37, September 1982. TREAT: Daniel P. Miranker, "TREAT: A better match algorithm for AI production systems". In Proceedings of the Sixth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-87), pages 42-47, August 1987. MatchBox: Mark Perlin, "The match box algorithm for parallel production system match", Technical Report CMU-CS-89-163, Carnegie Mellon University, School of Computer Science, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May 1989. DRETE: Michael A. Kelly and Rudolph E. Seviora, "An evaluation of DRETE on CUPID for OPS5 matching", in Proceedings of the Eleventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-89), pages 84-90, Detroit MI, August 1989, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: [12] Integrated AI Architectures Kurt VanLehn, editor, "Architectures for Intelligence", Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ, 1991. SOAR: John E. Laird, Allen Newell, and Paul S. Rosenbloom, "SOAR: An Architecture for General Intelligence", Artificial Intelligence, 33(1):1-64, 1987. PRODIGY: Steven Minton, Jaime G. Carbonell, Craig A. Knoblock, Daniel R. Kuokka, Oren Etzioni, and Yolanda Gil. "Explanation-based learning: A problem solving perspective". Technical Report CMU-CS-89-103, Carnegie Mellon University, School of Computer Science, Pittsburgh, PA, 1989. THEO: Tom M. Mitchell, J. Allen, P. Chalasani, J. Cheng, Oren Etzioni, Marc Ringuette, and Jeffrey Schlimmer, "THEO: A Framework for Self-Improving Systems", in Kurt VanLehn, editor, Architectures for Intelligence, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ, 1991. Subsumption Architectures: Brooks, R., "A Robust Layered Control System for a Mobile Robot", IEEE Journal of Robotics and Automation, RA-2, pages 14-23, April 1986. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: [13] Fuzzy Logic Zadeh, L.A., "Fuzzy Sets," Information and Control, 8, 338-353, 1965. Klir, George J. and Folger, Tina A., "Fuzzy Sets, Uncertainty, and Information", Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1988. Zimmermann, Hans J., "Fuzzy Set Theory and its Applications", Boston, MA, Kluwer-Nijhoff Publishing, 1985. Didier Dubois, Henri Prade, and Ronald R. Yager, editors, "Readings in Fuzzy Systems", Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1992. Brubaker, D.I., "Fuzzy-logic Basics: Intuitive Rules Replace Complex Math," EDN, June 18, 1992. Schwartz, D.G. and Klir, G.J., "Fuzzy Logic Flowers in Japan," IEEE Spectrum, July 1992. Kosko, B., Neural Networks and Fuzzy Systems, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1992. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: [14] Artificial Life The best source for information is the proceedings of the Artificial Life conferences. The proceedings were edited by Christopher G. Langton and published by Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0-201-09356-1 and 0-201-52751-2. Langton, C.G., editor, "Artificial Life" (Proceedings of the First International Conference), Addison-Wesley, 1989. Langton, C.G., Taylor, C., Farmer, J.D., and Rasmussen, S., editors, "Artificial Life II", Addison-Wesley, 1991. Forrest, S., editor, "Emergent Computation", MIT Press, 1991. Levy, S., "Artificial Life", Pantheon, New York, 1992. [An excellent popularization] Jean-Arcady Meyer and Stewart W. Wilson, "From animals to animats: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (1990, Paris, France)", MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1991. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: [15] Qualitative Physics and Model Based Reasoning QP Theory: Forbus, K. D., Qualitative Process Theory, Artificial Intelligence, 24:85-168, 1984. QSIM: Kuipers, B., Qualitative Reasoning with Causal Models in Diagnosis of Complex Systems, In D. S. Weld & J. deKleer, editors, Readings in Qualitative Reasoning about Physical Systems, pages 257-274, chapter 10, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1989. MBR-based Diagnosis: Davis, R., Diagnostic Reasoning Based on Structure and Behavior, Artificial Intelligence, 24:347-410, 1984. Function-based MBR: Sticklen, J., Chandrasekaran, B., & Bond, W. Distributed Causal Reasoning. Knowledge Acquisition, 1:139-162, 1989. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: [16] Task-specific Architectures for Problem Solving Generic Tasks: Chandrasekaran, B., Towards a Functional Architecture for Intelligence Based on Generic Information Processing Tasks, In IJCAI-87, pages 1183-1192, Milan, 1987. Components of Expertise: Steels, L., The Components of Expertise. AI Magazine, Summer, 1990. KADS: Breuker, J., & Wielinga, B., Models of Expertise in Knowledge Acquisition, in G. Guida & C. Tasso, editors, Topics in Expert Systems Design: Methodologies and Tools, Amsterdam: North Holland Publishing Company, 1989. Role-limiting Methods: McDermott, J., Preliminary Steps Toward a Taxonomy of Problem-Solving Methods, in S. Marcus, editor, Automating Knowledge Acquisition for Expert Systems, pages 225-255, Boston: Kluver Academic Publishers, 1988. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: [17] Automated Deduction/Theorem Proving C. Chang and R.C. Lee, "Symbolic Logic and Mechanical Theorem Proving", Academic Press, 1973. Alan Bundy, "The Computer Modelling of Mathematical Reasoning", Academic Press, 1983. David Duffy, "Principles of Automated Theorem Proving", John Wiley and Sons, 1991. Larry Wos and Ross Overbeek and Ewing Lusk and Jim Boyle, "Automated Reasoning. Introduction and Applications", Second Edition, McGraw-Hill, 1992. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Automated Deduction (CADE-11), D. Kapur (editor), Saratoga Springs, NY, USA, June 15-18, 1992, Lecture Notes in AI 607, Springer-Verlag, 1992, 793 pages. ISBN 0-387-55602-8 and 3-540-55602-8. [The CADE proceedings have a systems abstracts section with short descriptions of implemented systems, many of which are available by anonymous ftp.] ---------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: [18] Probabilistic Reasoning Neapolitan, Richard E., "Probabilistic Reasoning in Expert Systems: Theory and Algorithms", John Wiley and Sons, 1990. Oliver, Robert M., and Smith, James Q., editors, "Influence Diagrams, Belief Nets and Decision Analysis", John Wiley and Sons, 1990. Pearl, Judea, "Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems: Networks of Plausible Inference", Morgan Kaufmann, San Mateo, California, 1988. Shafer, Glenn, and Pearl, Judea, "Readings in Uncertain Reasoning", Morgan Kaufmann, San Mateo, California, 1990. R.O. Duda, P.E. Hart, and N.J. Nilsson, "Subjective Bayesian Methods for Rule-Based Inference Systems", In Proceedings of the 1976 National Computer Conference, pages 1075-1082, AFIPS, 1976. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: [19] Nonmonotonic Reasoning and Truth Maintenance Systems (TMS) Matthew L. Ginsberg, "Readings in Nonmonotonic Reasoning", Morgan Kaufmann, San Mateo, CA, 1987. Reiter, Ray, "Nonmonotonic Reasoning", Annual Review of Computer Science, 2:147-186, 1987. (Appears in Ginsberg.) Doyle, J., "Truth Maintenance Systems", Artificial Intelligence, 12(3):231-272, 1979. Reiter, Raymond and de Kleer, Johan, "Foundations of Assumption-Based Truth Maintenance Systems: Preliminary Report", Proceedings of AAAI-87, pages 183-188. J.P. Martins, "The Truth, The Whole Truth And Nothing But the Truth: An Indexed Bibliography to the Literature of TMS's", AI Magazine (Special Issue), AAAI, 1990. De Kleer, J., "An assumption-based TMS", Artificial Intelligence 28:127-162, 1986. De Kleer, J., "Extending the ATMS", Artificial Intelligence 28:163-196, 1986. De Kleer, J., "Problem Solving with the ATMS", Artificial Intelligence 28:197-224, 1986. De Kleer, J., "A comparison of ATMS and CSP techniques", IJCAI 1989, pages 290-296. Proceedings of AAAI 1988. Martins & Shapiro, AI Journal, vol. 35, (1988) Martins & Reinfrank (eds), "Truth Maintenance Systems", published by Springer Verlag in their 'Lecture Notes in Computer Science' series, 1991. Reinfrank, M., Dressler, O. and Brewka, G., On the Relation Between Truth Maintenance and Autoepistemic Logic, IJCAI 1989. Selman, B. and Levesque, H.J., "Abductive and Default Reasoning: A Computational Core", Proceedings of AAAI-90. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: [20] Robotics and Computer Vision John J. Craig, "Introduction to Robotics", Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1989. Martin A. Fischler and Oscar Firschein, editors, "Readings in Computer Vision", Morgan Kaufmann, San Mateo, CA, 1987. J. Michael Brady, "Computational approaches to image understanding", ACM Computing Surveys 14(1):3-71, March 1982. (Survey of methods in computer vision.) David Marr, "Vision: a computational investigation into the human representation and processing of visual information", W.H. Freeman, San Francisco, CA, 1982. [Three papers in the Encyclopedia of Aritificial Intelligence are relevant: Path planning and obstacle avoidance, pages 708-715 Mobile robots, pages 957-961 Sensors, pages 1031-1036] The 6.270 Robot Builder's Guide, by Fred Martin. Available by anonymous ftp from kame.media.mit.edu (18.85.0.45) in ~ftp/pub/fredm/README or in cherupakha.media.mit.edu:pub/6270/docs [18.85.0.47]. This directory contains "The 6.270 Robot Builder's Guide", the course notes to the 1992 MIT LEGO Robot Design Competition. For more information, contact Fred Martin <fredm@media.mit.edu>. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: [21] Distributed AI Collections: Alan H. Bond and Les Gasser, "Readings in Distributed Artificial Intelligence", Morgan Kaufmann, San Mateo, CA, 1988. Michael N. Huhns, ed., "Distributed Artificial Intelligence", Morgan Kaufmann, 1987. Les Gasser and Michael N. Huhns, eds., "Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Volume II", Morgan Kaufmann, 1989. (Special Issue on Distributed AI) IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Vol. 11, No. 1, Jan 1981. (Special Issue on Distributed AI---10 years later) IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Vol. 21, No. 6, Nov/Dec 1991. Decentralized Artificial Intelligence, Y. Demazeau ed. 1990, Decentralized AI 2, Demazeau, Y. & Muller, J-P, eds. 1991, Decentralized AI 3, Werner & Demazeau eds. 1992, all published by Elsevier Science Publishers . [Surveys can be found in the Bond & Gasser book listed above, and in: The Handbook of AI volume 4 1989; IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics-17(5) 1987; Kluwer Academic's AI Review-6(1)1992.] ---------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: [22] User/Agent Modeling Rapaport,W. J. (1987) "Belief Systems", in the Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence, pp. 63-73. Afzal Ballim and Yorick Wilks, "Artifical Believers", Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ, 1991. ISBN 0-8058-0453-6. Contains a 92 page background section on belief modeling in AI, Philosophy, NLP and Linguistics. Kobsa, A. & Wahlster, W. (1989) "User Models in Dialog Systems." Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg. See also the journal User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction in [1-1]. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: [23] Philosophy of AI D. McDermott, "Artificial Intelligence Meets Natural Stupidity," in Mind Design: Philosophy, Psychology, Artificial Intelligence, J. Haugeland, editor, chapter 5, pp. 143-160, MIT Press, 1981. H.A. Simon, "Sciences of the Artificial", 2nd Edition, MIT Press, 1981. A.M. Turing, "Computing Machinery And Intelligence," Mind, vol. LIX, no. 236, 1950. Reprinted in "Computers and Thought", Feigenbaum & Feldman (eds.), 1963. Also reprinted in "The Mind's I", Hofstadter & Dennett (eds.). Also reprinted in "Readings in Cognitive Science", Collins & Smith (eds.), section 1.1. Roger Penrose, "The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning computers, minds, and the laws of physics", Oxford University Press, New York, 1989, 466 pages, $30. Douglas R. Hofstadter and Daniel C. Dennett, "The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul", Basic Books, New York, 1981, 501 pages, $15.50. Daniel C. Dennett, "Consciousness explained", 1st edition, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1991, 511 pages, $27.95. John Haugeland, "Artificial Intelligence: The very idea", MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1985, 287 pages. John Haugeland, editor, "Mind Design: Philosophy, Psychology, Artificial Intelligence", MIT Press, Cambridge, MA 1981, 368 pages. Margaret A. Boden, editor, "The Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence", Oxford University Press, New York, 1990, 452 pages. Hans Moravec, "Mind Children: The future of robot and human intelligence", Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1988, 214 pages. Kirsh, D., editor, "Foundations of Artificial Intelligence, Special issues of Artificial Intelligence", The MIT Press, 1991. Reprinted from Artificial Intelligence 47(1--3), 1991. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: [24] What is Cyc? Cyc is a project at MCC in Texas to build an enCYClopedic database and reasoning engine for common sense knowledge. "CYC", AI Magazine 1986, 7(1), 1986. "Cyc: A Mid-Term Report," AI Magazine, 11(3):32-59, Fall 1990. "Cyc: Toward Programs With Common Sense," CACM, 33(8):30-49, August 1990. "Knowledge and Natural Language Processing," CACM, Aug 1990. "When will machines learn?," Machine Learning, 4(3-4):255-257, December 1989. D.B. Lenat, R.V. Guha, "Building Large Knowledge-Based Systems", Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: [25] Miscellaneous: PhD Theses Be sure to check the proceedings of the various national conferences in the area that interests you. PhD theses can often be obtained from University Microfilms Internatinal, 300 North Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48106. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: [26] Videotapes and Magazines Videotapes: The 4th episode of the PBS series "The Machine That Changed the World" is a good introduction to AI. It is available for $90 from Films for the Humanities, 1-800-257-5126. Morgan Kaufmann also has a good set of tapes of AI-related lectures, but it runs on the expensive side. AI-related magazines include: AI EXPERT Miller Freeman, Inc., 600 Harrison Street, San Francisco, CA 94107. Subscriptions: 1-800-274-2534 or 303-447-9330 $42/year (12 issues), $6 extra in Canada and Mexico, $15 extra (surface mail) or $40 (air mail) for overseas. PC AI 3310 West Bell Road, Suite 119, Phoenix, AZ 85023. Subscriptions: 602-971-1869, fax 602-971-2321. $28/year (6 issues); $54 for two years; $78 for three years. $9 extra in Canada and Mexico, $25 extra (air mail) for all other countries. Both magazines are excellent sources of commercial product reviews and frequently publish "Product Guides/Showcases" that list many of the commercial products available in a particular area of AI, such as expert systems, neural nets, natural language processing, and so on. ---------------------------------------------------------------- ;;; *EOF*