List,
I reviewed drafts for this book many months ago, this
can for sure be implemented in Smalltalk.
/Klaus
--- Pei Wang wrote:
New Book Announcement [apologies for cross-posting]
Rigid Flexibility: The Logic of Intelligence
by Pei Wang
Springer, October 2006, ISBN: 1402050445
This book provides the blueprint of a thinking machine.
While most of the current works in Artificial
Intelligence
(AI) focus on individual aspects of intelligence and
cognition, the project described in this book, Non-
Axiomatic
Reasoning System (NARS), is designed and developed to
attack
the AI problem as a whole.
This project is based on the belief that what we call
"intelligence" can be understood and reproduced as "the
capability of a system to adapt to its environment while
working with insufficient knowledge and resources".
According
to this idea, a novel reasoning system is designed,
which
challenges all the dominating theories in how such a
system
should be built. The system carries out reasoning,
learning,
categorizing, planning, decision making, etc., as
different
facets of the same underlying process. This theory also
provides unified solutions to many problems in AI, logic,
psychology, and philosophy.
This book is the most comprehensive description of this
decades-long project, including its philosophical
foundation,
methodological consideration, conceptual design details,
its
implications in the related fields, as well as its
similarities and differences to many related works in
cognitive sciences.
Book webpage (with Table of Contents):
http://www.springer.com/west/home/computer/artificial?SGWID=4-147-22-173659733-0
E-Book (with freely accessible Front Matter and Back
Matter):
http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-1-4020-5045-9Project website (with demos and publications):
http://nars.wang.googlepages.com/home---------------------------------
Pei Wang, Temple University
http://www.cis.temple.edu/~pwang/---------------------------------
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