Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing.

Behavioral and Cognitive Modeling
of the Human Brain.

Amit Konar
Department of Electronics and Tele-communication Engineering
Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India.

The book, to the best of the author’s knowledge, is the first text of its kind that
presents both the traditional and the modern aspects of ‘AI and Soft
Computing’ in a clear, insightful and highly comprehensive writing style. It
provides an in-depth analysis of the mathematical models and algorithms, and
demonstrates their applications in real world problems of significant
complexity.

1. About the book
The book covers 24 chapters altogether. It starts with the behavioral
perspective of the ‘human cognition’ and covers in detail the tools and
techniques required for its intelligent realization on machines. The classical
chapters on search, symbolic logic, planning and machine learning have been
covered in sufficient details, including the latest research in the subject. The
modern aspects of soft computing have been introduced from the first
principles and discussed in a semi-informal manner, so that a beginner of the
subject is able to grasp it with minimal effort. Besides soft computing, the
other leading aspects of current AI research covered in the book include nonmonotonic
and spatio-temporal reasoning, knowledge acquisition,
verification, validation and maintenance issues, realization of cognition on
machines and the architecture of AI machines. The book ends with two case
studies: one on ‘criminal investigation’ and the other on ‘navigational
planning of robots,’ where the main emphasis is given on the realization of
intelligent systems using the methodologies covered in the book.
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