Spring 2006 Supplemental Materials

Supplementary Readings

Because many topics are covered using tutorial papers, I offer the following text books as supplements should you need more explanation of the concepts:

Ronald Arkin, Behavior-Based Robotics, MIT Press, 1998.
Malik Ghallab, Dana Nau and Paolo Traverso, Automated Planning: Theory and Practice, Morgan Kaufmann, 2004.
Holger Hoos and Thomas Stutzle, Stochastic Local Search: Foundations and Applications
Robin Murphy, Introduction to AI Robotics, MIT Press, 2000.
Michael Pinedo, Scheduling: Theory, Algorithms and Systems, Prentice-Hall, 2002.

Resources Available:

General AI sites:
- Proposal for the Dartmouth AI Conference a bit of history -- the official start of Artificial Intelligence as a field
- Pointers to AI web sites
- the Association for Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence
- CMU Artificial Intelligence Repository was established by Mark Kantrowitz in 1993 to collect files, programs and publications of interest to Artificial Intelligence researchers, educators, students, and practitioners.
- Institute for Information Technology AI list As a service to Artificial Intelligence researchers internationally, the Institute for Information Technology maintains a comprehensive list of pointers to AI resources on the Internet.
- Air Force Institute of Technology AI Laboratory is dedicated to serving the needs of the Air Force by conducting fundamental research in the field of AI.
Bibliographies and Sources of Literature
- The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies
- Search engine for papers in computer science
- Scientific Research index with a bias toward CS and AI
- AI Subject Index
- UCI Machine Learning Repository
- Page full of pointers to machine learning bibliographies, data, software, etc.
- AI Magazine Official Publication of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
- AAAI's publications The American Association for Artificial Intelligence offers a broad range of publications, from serials such as AI Magazine and the AI Directory to technical reports to proceedings and books published by The AAAI Press and distributed internationally by The MIT Press.
- IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering IEEE journal covering topics in intelligent systems
Evaluation in AI
- Evaluation of Intelligent Systems (EIS) is an on-line resource that provides "one-stop shopping" for managers, system-builders, researchers, and users who wish to study the empirical behavior of information systems.
- Evaluation Methods for Knowledge Engineering
Common Lisp:
- Allegro Common Lisp with Emacs: Lines to add to your .emacs file and a tutorial on using Allegro Common Lisp from within Emacs.
- Emacs Basic Emacs Editor Commands
- Lisp How to Run Allegro Common Lisp
- Common Lisp, The Language Guy Steele's Common Lisp book on-line
- Powermac Lisp with on-line help and parenthesis balancing
- Free trial distributions of Common LISP available for both Windows and Linux platforms; note: these versions are good sized subsets of the lisp we run in the CS Department
- Lisp pointers and code examples from Paul Grahams's "ANSI Common Lisp" and "On Lisp" books
- Allegro Common Lisp 4.3.2 User guide is available locally at ~cs540/lisp/aclug.pdf
- Franz Inc., where you download a version Common Lisp for Windows that does not include a compiler,
- CMUCL, a Common Lisp maintained by CMU for Unix
- On-line Lisp tutorials
  - ELM-ART, an interactive Lisp Tutor. You can do the examples , and the program will critique your work! Uses a fancy interactive WWW server written in Lisp, what else :-)
  - Marty Hall's Learning Common Lisp Page. This is where those short descriptive handouts came from!
  - Colin Allen's Common Lisp Primer (An HTML Introductory lisp textbook)
  - On-line Lisp tutorial
Writing and Speaking Resources
- Check the Writing Center web site for tutorials and pointers on improving your writing.
- "Pointers on Giving a Talk," D. Messerschmitt
- The Short Talk Charles Van Loan,
- Tips for Preparing Scientific Presentation ONR
- For help with your writing, see the CSU Writing Center web site for tutorials and descriptions on improving your writing. You may even submit drafts of your papers and receive editorial feedback from the Writing Center's consultants!
Agents
- Software Agents repository of all kinds of information
- Introduction to intelligent software agents
- Links to intelligent agents sites
- Intelligent Software Agents on the Internet, paper describing state of the art as of March 1997
- Distributed AI Repository
Belief Networks
- Bayesian Networks Tutorial,
- Bayesian Network applet,
- JavaBayes, another applet,
Genetic Algorithms
- Genitor GA home page (with links to other GA sites)
- Genetic Algorithms and Artificial Life Resources
- Evolutionary Computation tool kit in Java
Machine Learning
- Online machine learning resources
- UCI Machine Learning Repository, classic problems for machine learning and links to other sites
- Search engine for machine learning papers
Natural Language
- Start: Natural Language Question Answering System
- Natural Language Computing project, site at NYU with code for simple NL program
Neural Networks and Reinforcement Learning
- Sutton and Barton Reinforcement Learning text
- Applet that learns to play BlackJack using reinforcement learning,
- Data mining applications of neural networks
- Commercial Applications of neural networks
- Freeware and shareware code for neural networks
- Demos of Neural networks
- Cyberlinfe archives simulating biological systems to aid in machine learning
Planning
- Listing of other planning sites and planners
- Proceedings of AAAI96 Workshop on Theories of Action and Planning
- STAN planner home page (GraphPlan with state analysis)
- UCPOP manual, command language and description of the UCPOP system
- UCPOP home page, general description of the code and project
Robotics
- Mobile Robot Resources
- Xavier, a reliable robot project
Search and Satisfiability
- Links to Empirical Studies of search
Fun stuff
- RoboCup web page describing the RoboCup competition with pointers to code!
- Xavier the robot your can command on-line
- Software Agents repository of information about state of the art in intelligent software agents
- Shareware and Freeware Neural Network Software