Programming Artificial Intelligence Search Algorithms in a Functional Approach

The theory and practice of search algorithms related to state-space represented problems form the major part of the introductory course of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Debrecen. Our students meet these algorithms only in Java or C# during the seminars. In this paper, we would like to introduce a new approach for presenting these algorithms to the students, which is programming them in a functional style using the F# programming languag