International Dictionary of Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence is increasingly employed in all areas of human endeavor and industry. Anticipating the needs of professionals, researchers, and students alike, International Dictionary of Artificial Intelligence defines and illustrates over 2,500 terms and provides detailed explanations of major concepts as well as topics in related disciplines. The Dictionary also contains an annotated bibliography and an extensive appendix of World Wide Web sites devoted to the latest trends and developments in the world of artificial intelligence.

Table of Contents:
About the Author Acknowledgements List of Figures, Graphs, and Tables Figure A.1 - Example Activation Functions Table A.1 - Adjacency Matrix Figure A.2 - An Autoregressive Network Figure B.1 - A Belief Chain Figure B.2 - An Example Boxplot Graph C.1 - An Example Chain Graph Figure C.1 - Example Chi-Squared Distributions Graph C.2 - Graph with (ABC) Clique Figure C.3 - Simple Five-Node Network Table C.1 - Conditional distribution Figure D.1 - A Simple Decision Tree Figure D.2 - Dependency Graph Figure D.3 - A Directed Acyclic Graph Figure D.4 - A Directed Graph Figure E.1 - An Event Tree for Two Coin Flips Figure F.1 - Simple Four Node and Factorization Model Figure H.1 - Hasse Diagram of Event Tree Figure J.1 - Directed Acyclic Graph Table K.1 - Truth Table Table K.2 - Karnaugh Map Figure L.1 - Cumulative Lift Figure L.2 - Linear Regression Figure L.3 - Logistic Function Figure M.1 - Manhattan Distance Table M.1 - Marginal Distributions Table M.2 - A 3 State Transition Matrix Figure M.2 - A DAG and its Moral Graph Figure N.1 - Non-Linear Principal Components Network Figure N.2 - Standard Normal Distribution Figure P.1 - Parallel Coordinates Plot Figure P.2 - A Graph of a Partially Ordered Set Figure P.3 - Scatterplots: Simple Principal Components Analysis Figure T.1 - Tree Augniented Bayes Model Figure T.2 - An Example of a Tree Figure T.3 - A Triangulated Graph Figure U.1 - An Undirected Graph Definition of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Terms Appendix: Internet Resources

About the Author :
William Raynor (Author)

Review :
"Useful to readers interested in artificial intelligence and expert systems but lacking formal education in these areas." -- Choice