The book you contacted is a collection of invited scientific papers , which means that this is a rather complicated book if you are just starting to work in intelligent systems.
In fact, there are two interpretations of intelligent systems:
(a) Artificial intelligence , mainly studied by the computer science community. AI is engaged in machine learning, knowledge representation and reasoning, teaching and planning methods. AI is the development of algorithms. Absolute reference to AI: " Artificial Intelligence, a modern approach "
Although you mean this interpretation, in case of your interest, here is the second:
(b) Intelligent control systems , mainly studied by electrical engineers. He is engaged in the development of intelligent systems capable of adapting to environmental changes, capable of learning, capable of making intelligent decisions, etc. Intelligent systems deal with the development of mathematical models of “intelligence” that can be applied to real systems to optimize their performance (or some other measures). The tools used are mainly adaptive control, neural networks and optimization methods. There is not so easy to follow a book on this subject, however some excellent articles here and . Also a great link to Neural Networks - " Neural Networks, a comprehensive foundation