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Introduction to Knowledge Systems

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This book is very helpful in learning about the concept of knowledge-based systems. I must caution though, that if you are familiar with artificial intelligence there is a lot of material in this book that will act as a review.

When purchasing this book, I was hoping for material on developing a knowledge-based system from scratch. While it does an outstanding job in teaching you the fundamentals (clear through diagnosis and troubleshooting), it seemed to leave me slightly incomplete and in search for additional material on the subject.

It's not a all-in-one book, but this is book is definitely one to consider.

The author gives an exceptional and in-depth view of the topics of search, reasoning with time, space and uncertainty and also on classification. It should make a good text at the graduate-level. The book also gives excellent exercises and open- research problems. A true classic in this area. A must on the desk of every AI practitioner

The book covers many aspects of knowledge based systems including knowledge representation, problem solving by search,the marriage between knowledge and software engineering(which is a rising issue at present), temporal and spatial reasoning, uncertainy modeling and many others. The book ends with a chapter on troubleshooting, which attracts many practitioners.The book is rich with good contents. Many examples and illustrations are used to introduce the concepts. I liked chapter 6 very much for its beautiful presentation on probabilistic networks.Chapter 4 and 5 on Reasoning about time and Reasoning about space respectively are also interesting. Readers of different background will find the book extremely useful for its beautiful writing style.