xv, 448 p. : 25 cm Cover title: Introduction to artificial intelligence & expert systems Includes index Bibliography: p. 432-440 Overview of artificial intelligence -- Knowledge: general concepts -- LISP and other AI programming languages -- Formalized symbolic logics -- Dealing with inconsistencies and uncertainties -- Probabilistic reasoning -- Structured knowledge: graphs, frames, and related structures -- Object-oriented representations -- Search and control strategies -- Matching techniques -- Knowledge organization and management -- Natural language processing -- Pattern recognition -- Visual image understanding -- Expert systems architectures -- General concepts in knowledge acquisition -- Early work in machine learning -- Learning by induction -- Examples of other inductive learners -- Analogical and explanation-based learning