This outstanding reference provides a comprehensive and coherent introduction to the expanding field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) - explaining how knowledge-based systems are built, what tools and technologies are relevant and available, and how to employ them in specific application situations.

Paying special attention to the applied aspects of AI, Methods and Tools for Applied Artificial Intelligence introduces the fascinating field of AI, its scope and contents, its historical evolution, and its current usage . . . discusses the various methods of knowledge representation, including languages needed for their implementation . . . addresses the problems existing within the process of knowledge acquisition and maintenance and includes methods and tools for their solutions . . . covers the formal methods of reasoning . . . reviews numerous techniques for machine learning . . . describes how to formulate, represent, and solve a problem using well-known problem-solving methods and search techniques . . . offers a guided tour of AI programming languages such as LISP, PROLOG, OPS-5, and Smalltalk as well as shells and development environments available for building knowledge-based systems . . . and more.