References and Resources on Artificial Intelligence

Discussion on May 17-18 will consider both expert systems and neural networks. The following lists provide references for both types of systems, as well as some pointers for the general subject of artificial intelligence.

Artificial Intelligence

American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Welcome to AI Topics, 2003, http://www.aaai.org/AITopics/ -- a Web-based library of introductory information about various areas of artificial intelligence; altogether, a resource with links to hundreds (thousands?) of sites, organized by an easy-to-use, interactive index.
George Luger, Artificial Intelligence: Structures and Strategies for Complex Problem Solving, Fourth Edition Addison-Wesley, 2002 -- a well-respected introduction to artificial intelligence, as witnessed by its being in its fourth edition.
Peter Norvig, AI on the Web, http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/ai.html -- a list of over 800 links on various aspects of artificial intelligence.
Nils J. Nilsson, Artificial Intelligence: A New Synthesis, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1998 -- another fine introductory textbook on artificial intelligence.
Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig, Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, Second Edition, Prentice-Hall, 2003 -- the leading introductory textbook in the field.

Expert Systems

American Association for Artificial Intelligence, Expert Systems, http://www.aaai.org/AITopics/html/expert.html -- an on-line index of materials, including tutorials on the subject. Highly recommended as a starting point for readings on the subject.
Virginia Barker and Dennis O'Connor "Expert Systems for Configuration at Digital: XCON and Beyond", Communications of the ACM, Volume 32, Number 3, March 1989, pp. 298-317.
Daniel Bobrow et al, "Expert Systems: Perils and Promise", Volume 29, Number 9, September 1986, pp. 880-894.
Joseph Giarratano and Gary Riley, Expert Systems: Principles and Programming, Third Edition Brooks/Cole Publishers, 1998.
Frederick Hayes-Roth, "The Knowledge-Based Expert System: A Tutorial", IEEE Computer, Volume 18, Number 9, September 1984, pp. 11-28.
Frederick Hayes-Roth, "Rule-Based Systems", Communications of the ACM, Volume 28, Number 9, September 1985, pp. 921-932.
Peter Jackson, Introduction to Expert Systems, Third Edition, Addison-Wesley, 1998.
Gary Riley, CLIPS: A Tool for Building Expert Systems, 2002. (a Web site that provides software and support for building expert systems; the software is based in standard C for portability)
Scandia National Laboratories, Jess: the Rule Engine for the Java Platform, 2003. (a Java-based expert system and environment, originally based on CLIPS)
Henry Walker, Vikram Subramaniam, and Ivan Sykes, "An Expert System to Place Incoming Students in Math and CS Classes", Journal of Computer Science Education, Volume 3, Number 3, 1992, pp. 223-232.

Neural Networks

American Association for Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks and Connectionist Systems (A subtopic of Machine Learning), http://www.aaai.org/AITopics/html/neural.html -- an on-line index of materials, including several introductions to the subject. Highly recommended as a starting point for readings on the subject.
Philip Goodman, NevProp, at the University of Nevada at Reno -- an extensive and flexible system for developing and running neural networks
- NevProp Manual with Artificial Neural Network Theory, updated July 18, 2001, at http://brain.cs.unr.edu/publications/NevPropManual.pdf
- Downloadable software and documentation in zip format , last updated July 25, 2001, at http://brain.cs.unr.edu/publications/NevProp.zip

Acknowledgements

This listing has drawn upon several bibliographic sources, including

A listing by John Dooley, Knox College, of journal articles related to course CS 317 Artificial Intelligence, at http://courses.knox.edu/cs317/317Papers.html .

created April 21, 2003 last revised May 13, 2003

For more information, please contact Henry M. Walker at walker@cs.grinnell.edu.