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Contents
Artificial intelligence and geography | 1 |
A brief history of artificial intelligence | 33 |
Heuristic search in geography | 55 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Artificial Intelligence in Geography |
| Authors | Stan Openshaw, Christine Openshaw |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Wiley, 1997 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 5 Nov 2007 |
| ISBN | 0471969915, 9780471969914 |
| Length | 352 pages |
| Subjects | › › Science / Earth Sciences / General Social Science / Human Geography |
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