[MUD-Dev] AI Texts (was: Re: Thoughts about smarter Sims)

[rob at cs.nwu.edu]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mud-dev-admin at kanga.nu
> [mailto:mud-dev-admin at kanga.nu]On Behalf Of Eli Stevens

> I recommend _Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach_ by Stuart Russell
> and Peter Norvig.  It is (C) 1995, so it is fairly recent.  It was the
> textbook for my CECS 375 AI class, and I liked it a lot.  ISBN:
> 0-13-103805-2.

i second that! :)  the russell and norvig book is both comprehensive and
approachable, and it's imvho the best general ai book out there. one
interesting characteristic - its unifying theme is agency, and it does a
great job of explaining how different ai techniques fit the task of building
agents.

as for ai in games in general, there's one caveat - much of academic ai has
been concerned with high-level cognitive tasks (ie. formal inference,
planning, etc.), and those are usually *very* computationally expensive. in
addition to russell and norvig, i would also recommend the book _designing
autonomous agents_ (edited by pattie maes), because it describes approaches
to building agents with very fast low-level processing, but i have to warn
that it does presuppose some familiarity with ai.

hope this helps,

rob





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