Published book analyzing classic artificial intelligence problems and "Human Window" compatible solutions
One of my greatest accomplishments is co-writing the now published book Artificial Intelligence Problems and Their Solutions. The book's objective is to lend insight into understanding and solving some well-known Artificial Intelligence problems, as well as the importance of developing critical-thinking methods and skills.
The idea for the book arose out of a project I completed as an independent research course with the late Dr. Danny Kopec while attending Brooklyn College. Dr. Kopec introduced me to the notion of the "Human Window," which was passed down to him by his PhD. mentor, and friend, Donald Michie, who is credited with this idea.
The "Human Window" is essentially "a region constrained by human memory capabilities and computational limitations" which "illustrates the limitations of the human brain's ability to process information and the need for Artificial Intelligence solutions to fall within its bounds." In order for a solution to fall within the human window, that solution must be ideal in terms of correctness, grain size, executability and comprehensibility. (Kopec, Danny "Human and Machine Representations of Knowledge" (1983) University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland.)
My role in this research project was to analyze solutions to some well-known problems to which classic artificial intelligence methods have been applied, and evaluate whether or not these solutions fall within the Human Window. These problems were the Missionaries and Cannibals problem, the 12 Coins problem, Cryptarithms and The Red Donkey Problem.
This project, along with a Master's dissertation on human problem solving techniques by Shwetta Shetty, became the inspiration for Artificial Intelligence Problems and Their Solutions.
The book contains chapters that focuses on different well-known problems:
Subsections of the chapters typically have a background on the problem, describes different problem solving techniques involved, has a detailed explanation of the solution, examines a Big-O analysis on a possible algorithmic solution, and provides examples of solutions that may or may not be deemed as Human Window-Compatible.
The book also includes a short analysis on some other smaller popular problems like the Birthday Problem.
Before his passing, Dr. Kopec and I were able to complete ans publish a second edition of the book titled Artificial Intelligence and Problem Solving. In addition to the problems in the first book, this book includes analyses on:
Both books are currently being sold on book websites such as Amazon.com. It was a pleasure working with Dr. Kopec on this project.
