Automated Planning Ghallab, Malik; Nau, Dana; Traverso, Paolo
2004, 2004-05-21
eBook, Book
Automated planning technology now plays a significant role in a variety of demanding applications, ranging from controlling space vehicles and robots to playing the game of bridge. These real-world ...applications create new opportunities for synergy between theory and practice: observing what works well in practice leads to better theories of planning, and better theories lead to better performance of practical applications. Automated Planning mirrors this dialogue by offering a comprehensive, up-to-date resource on both the theory and practice of automated planning. The book goes well beyond classical planning, to include temporal planning, resource scheduling, planning under uncertainty, and modern techniques for plan generation, such as task decomposition, propositional satisfiability, constraint satisfaction, and model checking. The authors combine over 30 years experience in planning research and development to offer an invaluable text to researchers, professionals, and graduate students. *Comprehensively explains paradigms for automated planning. *Provides a thorough understanding of theory and planning practice, and how they relate to each other. *Presents case studies of applications in space, robotics, CAD/CAM, process control, emergency operations, and games.
*Provides a thorough understanding of AI planning theory and practice, and how they relate to each other. *Covers all the contemporary topics of planning, as well as important practical applications of planning, such as model checking and game playing. *Presents case studies and applications in planning engineering, space, robotics, CAD/CAM, process control, emergency operations, and games.*Provides lecture notes, examples of programming assignments, pointers to downloadable planning systems and related information online.
Complexity theory is a central field of the theoretical foundations of computer science. It is concerned with the general study of the intrinsic complexity of computational tasks; that is, it ...addresses the question of what can be achieved within limited time (and/or with other limited natural computational resources). This book offers a conceptual perspective on complexity theory. It is intended to serve as an introduction for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, either as a textbook or for self-study. The book will also be useful to experts, since it provides expositions of the various sub-areas of complexity theory such as hardness amplification, pseudorandomness and probabilistic proof systems. In each case, the author starts by posing the intuitive questions that are addressed by the sub-area and then discusses the choices made in the actual formulation of these questions, the approaches that lead to the answers, and the ideas that are embedded in these answers.
Pap László portréja a Neumann János Számítógép-tudományi Társaság (NJSZT) Informatikatörténeti Fóruma (iTF) szervezésében készített "Arcképek a magyar informatika történetéből" sorozatában.
Inzelt Péter portréja a Neumann János Számítógép-tudományi Társaság (NJSZT) Informatikatörténeti Fóruma (iTF) szervezésében készített "Arcképek a magyar informatika történetéből" sorozatában.
Knowledge representation is at the very core of a radical idea for understanding intelligence. Instead of trying to understand or build brains from the bottom up, its goal is to understand and build ...intelligent behavior from the top down, putting the focus on what an agent needs to know in order to behave intelligently, how this knowledge can be represented symbolically, and how automated reasoning procedures can make this knowledge available as needed. This landmark text takes the central concepts of knowledge representation developed over the last 50 years and illustrates them in a lucid and compelling way. Each of the various styles of representation is presented in a simple and intuitive form, and the basics of reasoning with that representation are explained in detail. This approach gives readers a solid foundation for understanding the more advanced work found in the research literature. The presentation is clear enough to be accessible to a broad audience, including researchers and practitioners in database management, information retrieval, and object-oriented systems as well as artificial intelligence. This book provides the foundation in knowledge representation and reasoning that every AI practitioner needs. * Authors are well-recognized experts in the field who have applied the techniques to real-world problems * Presents the core ideas of KR in a simple straight forward approach, independent of the quirks of research systems * Offers the first true synthesis of the field in over a decade
Potrebe i zahtjevi tržišta radna ukazuju na nedostatak mnogih zanimanja, među kojima su često i različiti profili u području tehnike i tehnologije. S obzirom da se djeca već u osnovnoj školi trebaju ...poticati i usmjeravati u takva zanimanja, izvjesno je da na njihove stavove i interese može utjecati i školovanje. Stoga su je u ovom radu provedeno istraživanje i analiza stavova i interesa učenika prema karijernom razvoju u području tehnike i tehnologije. Istraživanje je provedeno na stratificiranom uzorku (N = 2155) osnovnoškolskih učenika predmetne nastave. Analizom su obuhvaćene spolne i dobne razlike s obzirom na njihov izravni interes, stavove prema poslovima, iskustvene stavove, te karijerne težnje. Za obradu prikupljenih podataka korišten je t-test i jednosmjerna analiza varijance uz Scheffé post-hoc testove. Rezultati pokazuju da su vrlo zainteresirani za aktivnosti u tehnici i tehnologiji te da uvažavaju razloge za izbor poslova u ovom području. Ipak, po pitanju vlastitih težnji i percepcije u tim poslovima te iskustvenih stavova, uočavaju se bitne spolne i dobne razlike. Djevojčice su pritom znatno manje sklone poslovima, iskustvima i zanimanjima u tehnici i informatici u odnosu na dječake. Iako su učenici nižih razreda više zainteresirani za tehniku i tehnologiju, istodobno su manje skloni aktivnostima, poslovima i zanimanjima u ovom području u odnosu na učenike viših razreda. Ovakvi nalazi ukazuju na nužnost prilagodbe sadržaja i aktivnosti koje će podjednako afirmirati djevojčice i dječake, što uključuje promjenu pedagoških pristupa, stilova poučavanja te više istraživačkih i dizajnerskih aktivnosti u nastavi. Dobna prilagodba traži izvedbene promjene kurikuluma, osobito nastave informatike, više smislenih praktičnih, istraživačkih i integriranih aktivnosti, te više vremena za takve aktivnosti u osnovnoškolskom kurikulumu.
Straub Elek portréja a Neumann János Számítógép-tudományi Társaság (NJSzT) Informatikatörténeti Fóruma (iTF) szervezésében készített "Arcképek a magyar informatika történetéből" sorozatában.
