Re: Java in Artificial Intelligence

"Kenneth P. Turvey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm really looking for a book like Peter Norvig's, 
> "Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case
> Studies in Common Lisp" (just mentioned in another thread), but for
> Java. 

i don't know of such a book off the top of my head, but then AI is
such a large field that i'm not sure what such a book would contain.
However, if you'd like to learn java, there are some books, Web pages
and tools that do various AI things in Java. A Google search on your
favorite topic will hopefully turn up a Java or C++ version of
whatever it is you're looking for

Off the top of my head:
- UNew Zealand's Weka is a bunch of data mining algorithms in Java.
  It's open source and the group publishes a book on it
- i wrote a case based reasoning engine in Java that's open source
  but probably not a great introduction to Java (i do some wierd
things
  for purposes of flexibility). It has an article explaining the code
- A guy named Bigge wrote a book on agents in Java. Comes with source
- SGI has MLC++, a machine learning library in C++
- JESS = Java Expert System Shell
- CISpace at UBritish Columbia has several AI Java applets
  (http://www.cs.ubc.ca/labs/lci/CIspace/) i don't think the 
  code is available however

So that covers PRL, CBR, clustering, decision trees (Weka calls their
version of C4.5 J48), CSP and neural networks. If there are other
topics you're interested in, a book *might* exist, but if not, there
is probably some software and articles on the Web

Hope that helps

-baylor

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