SOLUTIONS & INSTRUCTOR MANUAL for Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, 4th Edition by Peter Norvig and Stuart Russell

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A Modern Approach
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Stuart J. Russell and Peter Norvig
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,Preface
This Instructor’s Solution Manual provides solutions (or at least solution sketches) for
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almost all of the 400 exercises in Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (Second
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Edi- tion). We only give actual code for a few of the programming exercises; writing a lot of
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code would not be that helpful, if only because we don’t know what language you prefer.
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In many cases, we give ideas for discussion and follow-up questions, and we try to
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explain why we designed each exercise.
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There is more supplementary material that we want to offer to the instructor, but we
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have decided to do it through the medium of the World Wide Web rather than through a
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CD or printed Instructor’s Manual. The idea is that this solution manual contains the material
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that must be kept secret from students, but the Web site contains material that can be updated
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and added to in a more timely fashion. The address for the web site is:
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http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu
and the address for the online Instructor’s Guide is:
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http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/instructors.html
There you will find:
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Instructions on how to join the aima-instructors discussion list. We strongly n n n n n n n n n n


nrecom- mend that you join so that you can receive updates, corrections, notification
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nof new versions of this Solutions Manual, additional exercises and exam questions,
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netc., in a timely manner. n n n n


Source code for programs from the text. We offer code in Lisp, Python, and Java,
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nand point to code developed by others in C++ and Prolog.
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nFigures from the text; for overhead transparencies.
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nTerminology from the index of the book. n n n n n n


Other courses using the book that have home pages on the Web. You can see example
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nsyllabi and assignments here. Please do not put solution sets for AIMA exercises on
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AI Education information on teaching introductory AI courses.
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Other sites on the Web with information on AI. Organized by chapter in the book; check
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nthis for supplemental material.
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We welcome suggestions for new exercises, new environments and agents, etc. The
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book belongs to you, the instructor, as much as us. We hope that you enjoy teaching from it,
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that these supplemental materials help, and that you will share your supplements and experi-
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ences with other instructors.
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