Books & Papers | AI @ UniBO

About AI in general:

S. J. Russel, P. Norvig: "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach", Prentice Hall International, Pearson Education Italia, 2005.
E. Rich, K. Knight: "Intelligenza Artificiale", McGraw Hill, Seconda Edizione 1992.
E. Charniak, D. McDermott, "Introduzione all'Intelligenza Artificiale", Masson, 1988.
M.Ginsberg: "Essentials of Artificial Intelligence", Morgan Kaufman, 1993.
P. H. Winston: "Artificial Intelligence: Third Edition", Addison-Wesley, 1992.

Prolog:

L.Console, E.Lamma, P.Mello, M.Milano: "Programmazione Logica e Prolog", Seconda Edizione UTET, 1997 [web page for the book (in Italian)]
I. Bratko: "Programmare in Prolog per l'Intelligenza Artificiale", Masson e Addison-Weslay, 1988.

Additional books:

Ian Witten, Eibe Frank: "Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques with Java Implementations", ISBN: 1-55860-552-5, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2000.

Articoli scietifici relativi ai contenuti del corso verranno pubblicati con l'avanzare del programma.

Planning

Life-long planning A* [paper]
Partial Order Planners:
- UCPOP Planner [home page] [paper]
- RePOP Planner [home page] [paper]
- VHPOP Planner [home page] [paper]
Graph based planning:
- Graphplan planner [home page] [paper]
- Blackbox planner (planning as satisfiability) [home page] [paper]
- FF planner (graphplan as a heuristic) [home page] [paper]
Contingency Planning:
- Cassandra planner [paper]
- C-BURIDAN planner [paper 1] [paper 2]

Swarm Intelligence:

Ant Colony Optimization:
- MAX-MIN Ant System [paper]
- Hyper-cube framework [paper]
- Beam ACO [paper]
- Multi-level ACO [paper]
Artificial Bee Colony [paper 1] [paper 2]
Particle Swarm Optimization [paper]

Neural Networks:

Constraint Programming:

A survey by Jean-Charles Regin about global constraints [paper]
A book chapter by the same author (this one is longer and more detailed) [paper]
A tutorial about Constraint Based Scheduling [paper]