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From: flach@kubix.UUCP (Peter Flach)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Request for opinions on AI textbook
Summary: "AI & Design of Expert Systems", Luger & Stubblefield
Message-ID: <295@kubix.UUCP>
Date: 4 Jul 89 15:52:23 GMT
Reply-To: flach@kubix.UUCP (Peter Flach)
Organization: KUB Univ., Tilburg, The Netherlands.
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Next semester I will be teaching an introductory course on AI
Techniques. Several standard AI techniques, such as search, Theorem
Proving, meta interpreters, machine learning etc. will be illustrated
using Prolog. For this course, I consider to use the book

	'Artificial Intelligence and the Design of Expert Systems',
	George F. Luger and William A. Stubblefield, Benjamin/Cummings 1989.

To me, the book seems quite good, although I came across some strange
mistakes such as 'The Horn clause calculus is equivalent to the full
first-order predicate calculus for proofs by refutation' (p.206).

Does anyone know this book? Do you think it's good? Did you find any
other errors? Do you know of other good textbooks?
Any comments are appreciated.

--Peter A. Flach                           Institute for Language Technology
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