What are the tools avilable for developing AI agent software? specially some thing that a final year studend could afford for her final year project?

To my knowledge, there are not really any special tools used specifically for programming AI. AI is mainly just a bunch of algorithms and theories that can be implemented in any programming language. Some better suited for it than others. I do all of my AI implementation using Visual Studio.net and program in C++. Sometimes I program in Java, in which case I use the Eclipse IDE. In any case, any good IDE will have a suite of debugging tools. Eclipse is free off the internet and is a very full, robust development environment. I use it even when contracting for large companies.

-Axon

Whatkind of ai programming have you done using java? Do you know how to make kind of module (dll) out of a rule base?

Hi :)

If you are going to do some AI programming there are som utilities..

Common LISP language is used a lot for AI programming. And there is a lot of tools made around for AI programming in this language...

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