{"product_id":"acting-planning-and-learning-9781009579384","title":"Acting, Planning, and Learning","description":"AI's next big challenge is to master the cognitive abilities needed by intelligent agents that perform actions. Such agents may be physical devices such as robots, or they may act in simulated or virtual environments through graphic animation or electronic web transactions. This book is about integrating and automating these essential cognitive abilities: planning what actions to undertake and under what conditions, acting (choosing what steps to execute, deciding how and when to execute them, monitoring their execution, and reacting to events), and learning about ways to act and plan. This comprehensive, coherent synthesis covers a range of state-of-the-art approaches and models -deterministic, probabilistic (including MDP and reinforcement learning), hierarchical, nondeterministic, temporal, spatial, and LLMs -and applications in robotics. The insights it provides into important techniques and research challenges will make it invaluable to researchers and practitioners in AI, robotics, cognitive science, and autonomous and interactive systems.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGhallab, Malik:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Malik Ghallab is Directeur de Recherche Emeritus at CNRS and the University of Toulouse. He has (co-)authored more than 200 scientific publications and books on AI and robotics, especially on acting, planning, and learning. He is a EurAI Fellow, and Docteur Honoris Causa of Linköping University, Sweden.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNau, Dana:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Dana Nau is Professor Emeritus at the University of Maryland in the Computer Science Department and the Institute for Systems Research. He has more than 400 refereed scientific publications, primarily on AI, game theory, and several interdisciplinary topics. He is an AAAI Fellow, ACM Fellow, and AAAS Fellow.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTraverso, Paolo:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Paolo Traverso is Director of Strategic Planning at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), Trento, Italy. His main research interests are in automated planning and learning under uncertainty. He is the author and co-author of more than 100 scientific articles. He is a EurAI Fellow, AAIA Fellow, and AIIA Fellow.\u003cbr\u003eEt al...\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51690517528850,"sku":"9781009579384","price":131.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b7399927-fd8c-49bb-924e-81499ee34d63.jpg?v=1761737808","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/acting-planning-and-learning-9781009579384","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}