Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence

Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence introduces the foundations of present day AI and provides coverage to recent developments in AI such as Constraint Satisfaction Problems, Adversarial Search and Game Theory, Statistical Learning Theory, Automated Planning, Intelligent Agents, Information Retrieval, Natural Language & Speech Processing, and Machine Vision. The book features a wealth of examples and illustrations, and practical approaches along with the theoretical concepts. It covers all major areas of AI in the domain of recent developments. The book is intended primarily for students who major in computer science at undergraduate and graduate level but will also be of interest as a foundation to researchers in the area of AI.

Prof. K.R. Chowdhary is currently a Professor of Computer Science at JGI, Jodhpur. He is the former Professor and Head, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, M.B.M. Engineering College, Jodhpur, India. He completed his PhD from the same university in 2004. Prof. Chowdhary has over 35 years of teaching and research experience. He also taught at IIT Jodhpur (2010-2017), and also served as Director at JIET Group of Institutions, Jodhpur from 2014 to 2019. He was honored with senior membership award of Association for Computing Machinery in 2008 and Eminent Computer Engineer's Award from the Institute of Engineers, India in 2011. He has authored several papers published in national and international journals and conference proceedings. His areas of specialization include: Discrete Mathematical Structures, Theory of Computation, AI, Machine Learning, Natural Language and Speech Processing.