Paradigms of AI Programming is the first text to teach advanced Common Lisp techniques in the context of building major AI systems. By reconstructing authentic, complex AI programs using state-of-the-art Common Lisp, the book teaches students and professionals how to build and debug robust practical programs, while demonstrating superior programming style and important AI concepts. The author strongly emphasizes the practical performance issues involved in writing real working programs of significant size. Chapters on troubleshooting and efficiency are included, along with a discussion of the fundamentals of object-oriented programming and a description of the main CLOS functions. This volume is an excellent text for a course on AI programming, a useful supplement for general AI courses and an indispensable reference for the professional programmer.</p>

Contents

I: Introduction to Common Lisp

1. Introduction to Lisp

2. A Simple Lisp Program

3. Overview of Lisp

II: Early AI Programs

4. GPS: The General Problem Solver

5. ELIZA: Dialog with a Machine

6. Building Software Tools

7. STUDENT: Solving Algebra Word Problems

8. Symbolic Mathematics: A Simplification Program

III: Tools and Techniques

9. Efficiency Issues

10. Low Level Efficiency Issues

11. Logic Programming

12. Compiling Logic Programs

13. Object-Oriented Programming

14. Knowledge Representation and Reasoning

IV: Advanced AI Programs

15. Symbolic Mathematics with Canonical Form

16. Expert Systems

17. Line-Diagram Labeling by Constraint Satisfaction

18. Search and the Game of Othello

19. Introduction to Natural Language

20. Unification Grammars

21. A Grammar of English

V: The Rest of Lisp

22. Scheme: An Uncommon Lisp

23. Compiling Lisp

24. ANSI Common Lisp

25. Troubleshooting