This volume is the first in a series which deals with the challenge of AI issues, gives updates of AI methods and applications, and promotes high quality new ideas, techniques and methodologies in AI. This volume contains articles by 38 specialists in various AI subfields covering theoretical and application issues.
An introduction to artificial intelligence, N.G. Bourbakis; fundamental methods for horn logic and AI applications, E. Kounalis and P. Marquis; applications of genetic algorithms to permutation problems, F. Petry and B. Buckles; extracting procedural knowledge from software systems using inductive learning in the PM system, R. Reynolds and E. Zannoni; resource oriented parallel planning, S. Lee and K. Chung; advanced parsing technology for knowledge based shells, J. Kipps; analysis and synthesis of intelligent systems, W. Arden; document analysis and recognition, S.N. Srihari et al; signal understanding - an AI approach to modulation and classification, J.E. Whelchel et al; and others.
Carol Barash, New Jersey) Barash, Carol (formerly Assistant Professor of English, Rutgers University, New Jersey, formerly Assistant Professor of English, Rutgers University