I am writing a new book on Bayes' networks, but it is about 6 months from
completion. My 1990 book Probabilistic reasoning in expert systems is still
an easy intro, but it is out of print.
Sincerely,
Rich Neapolitan
At 03:43 PM 6/7/00 -0700, you wrote:
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>Hi all,
>
>I'm starting a seminar at my company to acquaint beginning scientists with
>various AI techniques. Can anyone recommend good introductory material on
>any the following topics?
>
>Neural networks
>Belief nets (the Pearl book is good but more advanced than we have in mind
>for this setting)
>Expert systems
>Agents
>Fuzzy logic
>
>Ideally, we'd like to find a 100 to 200 page book on each of these topics,
>roughly analagous to Melanie Mitchell's book An Introduction to Genetic
>Algorithms, covering both basic theory and an overview of what type of
>problem a technique is most suited to. However, it seems that truly
>introductory material on some of these topics is hard to find. Any help will
>be greatly appreciated.
>
>Regards,
>
>Rachel Cunningham
>
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