Ron Graham

Fan Chung

Leslie Hogben

Frederick Hoffman

Ronald C. Mullin

50 Years of Combinatorics Graph Theory and Computing

American Mathematical Society

There exists a history of great expectations and large investments involving artificial intelligence (AI). There are also notable shortfalls and memorable disappointments. One major controversy regarding AI is just how mathematical a field it is or should be. This text includes contributions that examine the connections between AI and mathematics, demonstrating the potential for mathematical applications and exposing some of the more mathematical areas within AI. The goal is to stimulate interest in people who can contribute to the field or use its results. Included in the work by M. Newborn on the famous Deep BLue chess match. He discusses highly mathematical techniques involving graph theory, combinatorics and probability and statistics. G. Shafer offers his development of probability through probability trees with some of the results appearing here for the first time. M. Golumbic treats temporal reasoning with ties to the famous Frame Problem. His contribution involves logic, combinatorics and graph theory and leads to two chapters with logical themes. H. Kirchner explains how ordering techniques in automated reasoning systems make deduction more efficient. Constraint logic programming is discussed by C. Lassez, who shows its intimate ties to linear programming with crucial theorems going back to Fourier. V. Nalwa's work provides a brief tour of computer vision, tying it to mathematics - from combinatorics, probability and geometry to partial differential equations. All authors are gifted expositors and are current contributors to the field. The wide scope of the volume includes research problems, research tools and good motivational material for teaching.

American Mathematical Society Short Course, January 8-9, 1996, Orlando, Florida

Mathematical Aspects of Artificial Intelligence

Proceedings of the Seventh Southeastern Conference of Combinatorics, Graph Theory, and Computing, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, February, 9-12, 1976

Proceedings of the Fourteenth Southeastern Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory, and Computing, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Feb. 4-18, 1983

Frederick Hoffman

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