Intelligent Systems

ALEXANDER M. MEYSTEL, PhD, is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. JAMES S. ALBUS, PhD, is Senior NIST Fellow in the Intelligent Systems Division at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

• PrefaceIntelligence in Natural and Constructed SystemsTheoretical FundamentalsKnowledge RepresentationReference ArchitectureMotivations, Goals, and Value JudgmentSensory ProcessingBehavior GenerationPlannerMultiresolutional Planning: A Sketch of the TheoryMultiresolutional Hierarchy of Planner/Executor ModulesLearningApplications of Multiresolutional Architectures for Intelligent SystemsIntelligent Systems: Precursor of the New Paradigm in Science and EngineeringAbbreviationsName IndexSubject Index

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