> I'm starting a seminar at my company to acquaint beginning scientists with
> various AI techniques. Can anyone recommend good introductory material on
> any the following topics?
Introduction to Bayesian Networks by Finn V. Jensen, Springer Verlag; 1996
is probably the closest to you description for Bayesian networks. I note
that Amazon.com lists it now as currently not available.
Bob Welch
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>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm starting a seminar at my company to acquaint beginning scientists with
> various AI techniques. Can anyone recommend good introductory material on
> any the following topics?
>
> Neural networks
> Belief nets (the Pearl book is good but more advanced than we have in mind
> for this setting)
> Expert systems
> Agents
> Fuzzy logic
>
> Ideally, we'd like to find a 100 to 200 page book on each of these topics,
> roughly analagous to Melanie Mitchell's book An Introduction to Genetic
> Algorithms, covering both basic theory and an overview of what type of
> problem a technique is most suited to. However, it seems that truly
> introductory material on some of these topics is hard to find. Any help
will
> be greatly appreciated.
>
> Regards,
>
> Rachel Cunningham
>
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