Download or read book Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence written by Achim G. Hoffmann and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1998-09 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a new methodological analysis of two competing research paradigms of artificial intelligence and cognitive science-the symbolic versus the connectionist paradigms. Providing an accessible introduction to the fundamentals of both paradigms, the book derives new objectives for future research that will help to integrate aspects of both areas to obtain more powerful AI techniques and to promote a deeper understanding of cognition.