"The book is a modern introduction to the whole field of intelligent systems, also known as artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence has grown significantly in recent years and many texts and resources have failed to keep up with this important technology. The book takes a modern, 21st century approach to the concepts of artificial intelligence and includes the latest developments, developmental tools, programming, and approaches related to AI"-- "Intelligent software can come to decisions on its own, based on the training on a data set - which makes Artificial Intelligence (AI) a primary area of research these days. AI is the study and design of a system that comprehends its environment and makes decisions that maximize its chances of success. In most cases it is an application intelligence that evolves over time and gets better with fewer errors. In others it can be an intelligence derived out of a set of options or constraints"--