Withtheemergenceofbigdataandmoderntechnologies,AIhasacquiredalotofrelevanceinmanydomains.TheincreaseindemandforautomationhasgeneratedmanyapplicationsforAIinfieldssuchasrobotics,predictiveanalytics,finance,andmore.Inthisbook,youwillunderstandwhatartificialintelligenceis.Itexplainsindetailbasicsearchmethods:Depth-FirstSearch(DFS),Breadth-FirstSearch(BFS),andA*Search,whichcanbeusedtomakeintelligentdecisionswhentheinitialstate,endstate,andpossibleactionsareknown.Randomsolutionsorgreedysolutionscanbefoundforsuchproblems.Butthesearenotoptimalineitherspaceortimeandefficientapproachesintimeandspacewillbeexplored.Wewillalsounderstandhowtoformulateaproblem,whichinvolveslookingatitandidentifyingitsinitialstate,goalstate,andtheactionsthatarepossibleineachstate.Wealsoneedtounderstandthedatastructuresinvolvedwhileimplementingthesesearchalgorithmsastheyformthebasisofsearchexploration.Finally,wewilllookintowhataheuristicisasthisdecidesthequalityofonesub-solutionoveranotherandhelpsyoudecidewhichsteptotake.