Advanced Topics in Artificial Intelligence: 2nd Advanced Course, Acai 87

by Helen Rose Ebaugh

This book gives an in-depth treatment of the latest results in a selection of core topics of AI. Its aim is to make available to students and practitioners active in AI those results in a form suitable for people who are already informed about the basics of AI. The treatment is in tutorial form, and the material originates from the series of Advanced Courses in AI that are regularly offered by the European Coordinating Committee for AI. The topics treated are Learning Systems, Planning, Automated Deduction, Qualitative Reasoning, Knowledge Engineering, Natural Language Understanding, and AI Programming. Through reading this book the interested reader will gain a clearer understanding and better perspective of a rapidly evolving field.

233 pages, Paperback

First published December 28, 1988

About the author

Professor Ebaugh received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Columbia University in 1975 with specialties in Organizational Sociology and the Sociology of Religion. In addition to five books, she has published numerous articles in scholarly journals, including The American Sociological Review, Social Forces, the Journal of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Sociological Analysis and The Journal For The Scientific Study of Religion.

Dr. Ebaugh served as president of the National Association for the Sociology of Religion, helped organize and served as the first chair of the American Sociological Association’s Section on the Sociology of Religion and is past president of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion. Ebaugh received two consecutive research grants from the Pew Charitable Trusts to study religion and the new immigrants in the United States. The results from the first grant that focused on the role of religious congregations in the incorporation of new immigrants is described in Religion and the New Immigrants: Adaptations and Continuities in New Immigrant Congrations (AltaMira Press, 2000). The second book from the project, Religion Across Borders: Transnational Religious Networks (AltaMira Press, 2002) is an analysis of the impact of religious ties among immigrants in the United States and family/friends in their home countries.

With a major grant from the Lilly Endowment, Dr. Ebaugh studied inter-faith coalitions and their provision of social services. In addition to a national survey of these coalitions, she and her research team conducted fieldwork in 10-12 coalitions across the country, with focus upon the inter-relationships between coalitions and the religious congregations with which they partner in their joint effort to provide social services to the needy. In 2009, Dr. Ebaugh published a book on the Gulen Movement, a transnational moderate Islamic movement devoted to education and interfaith dialog.