Action programming languages /

Artificial systems that think and behave intelligently are one of the most exciting and challenging goals of Artificial Intelligence. Action Programming is the art and science of devising high-level control strategies for autonomous systems which employ a mental model of their environment and which...

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Main Author: Thielscher, Michael
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [San Rafael, Calif.] : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, [2008]
Series:Synthesis lectures on artificial intelligence and machine learning (Online) ; #5.
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Summary:Artificial systems that think and behave intelligently are one of the most exciting and challenging goals of Artificial Intelligence. Action Programming is the art and science of devising high-level control strategies for autonomous systems which employ a mental model of their environment and which reason about their actions as a means to achieve their goals. Applications of this programming paradigm include autonomous software agents, mobile robots with high-level reasoning capabilities, and General Game Playing. These lecture notes give an in-depth introduction to the current state-of-the-art in action programming. The main topics are knowledge representation for actions, procedural action programming, planning, agent logic programs, and reactive, behavior-based agents. The only prerequisite for understanding the material in these lecture notes is some general programming experience and basic knowledge of classical first-order logic.
Item Description:Title from PDF title page (viewed on July 18, 2008).
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Physical Description:viii, 91 pages : digital, PDF file.
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Format:Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 89-90).
ISBN:9781598295450 (ebook)
1598295454 (ebook)