Understanding intelligence / Rolf Pfeifer and Christian Scheier ; with figures by Alex Riegler and cartoons by Isabelle Follath.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pfeifer, Rolf, 1947-

Contributor:

Scheier, Christian.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Artificial intelligence.

Cognitive science.

Expert systems (Computer science).

Physical Description:

xx, 697 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, c1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Researchers now agree that intelligence always manifests itself in behavior - thus it is behavior that we must understand. An exciting new field has grown around the study of behavior-based intelligence, also known as embodied cognitive science, "new AI," and "behavior-based AI."" "Rolf Pfeifer and Christian Scheier provide a systematic introduction to this new way of thinking about intelligence and computers. After discussing concepts and approaches such as subsumption architecture, Braitenberg vehicles, evolutionary robotics, artificial life, self-organization, and learning, the authors derive a set of principles and a coherent framework for the study of naturally and artificially intelligent systems, or autonomous agents. This framework is based on a synthetic methodology whose goal is understanding by designing and building."--Jacket.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

I The Study of Intelligence - Foundations and Issues

1 The Study of Intelligence

2 Foundations of Classical Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science

3 The Fundamental Problems of Classical Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science

II A Framework for Embodied Cognitive Science

4 Embodied Cognitive Science: Basic Concepts

5 Neural Networks for Adaptive Behavior

III Approaches and Agent Examples

6 Braitenberg Vehicles

7 The Subsumption Architecture

8 Artificial Evolution and Artificial Life

9 Other Approaches

IV Principles of Intelligent Systems

10 Design Principles of Autonomous Agents

11 The Principle of Parallel, Loosely Coupled Processes

12 The Principle of Sensory-Motor Coordination

13 The Principles of Cheap Design, Redundancy, and Ecological Balance

14 The Value Principle

15 Human Memory: A Case Study

V Design and Evaluation

16 Agent Design Considerations

17 Evaluation

VI Future Directions

18 Theory, Technology, and Applications

19 Intelligence Revisited

Glossary

References

Author Index

Subject Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [659]-675) and indexes.

ISBN:

0-262-25079-9

0-585-12903-7

1-282-09668-0

9786612096686

0-262-25679-7

OCLC:

44966051