chapter 1 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing -- chapter 2 The Psychological Perspective of Cognition -- chapter 3 Production Systems -- chapter 4 Problem Solving by Intelligent Search -- chapter 5 The Logic of Propositions and Predicates -- chapter 6 Principles in Logic Programming -- chapter 7 Default and Non-Monotonic Reasoning -- chapter 8 Structured Approach to Knowledge Representation -- chapter 9 Dealing with Imprecision and Uncertainty -- chapter 10 Structured Approach to Fuzzy Reasoning -- chapter 11 Reasoning with Space and Time -- chapter 12 Intelligent Planning -- chapter 13 Machine Learning Techniques -- chapter 14 Machine Learning Using Neural Nets -- chapter 15 Genetic Algorithms -- chapter 16 Realizing Cognition Using Fuzzy Neural Nets -- chapter 17 Visual Perception -- chapter 18 Linguistic Perception -- chapter 19 Problem Solving by Constraint Satisfaction -- chapter 20 Acquisition of Knowledge -- chapter 21 Validation, Verification and Maintenance Issues -- chapter 22 Parallel and Distributed Architecture for Intelligent Systems -- chapter 23 Case Study I -- chapter 24 CAT#1385 Title Page 11/29/01 9:43 AM Page -- chapter 24 The Expectations from the Readers.