Q & A for Introduction AI

By applying a k-sat solver (and finding a solution) we can prove that a k-sat problem is satisfiable. For random 3-sat problems for instance...

Consider a taxi driving agent. This agent is clearly in a multi-agent environment because of the other drivers on the road. They typically p...

The answer is yes (with thanks to Rina Dechter). First imagine there were multiple fixed points with different domain sets. Each of these do...

If we have 2 heuristics h1 and h2 and h1 The reason why domination translates into fewer nodes expanded is that A* is guaranteed to expand e...

Time complexity concerns the number of operations you have to perform to get to a goal state. We measure these usually in b: the maximal bra...

This is actually a very important issue which is perhaps a little under-emphasized in the book. Graph search maintains in addition to its fr...

In the book (Russel & Norvig) it is argued that the time and space complexity of BFS (breadth first search) is O(b^[d+1]) where b is the...