Reasoning about Knowledge
Overview
Reasoning about knowledge--particularly the knowledge of agents who reason about the world and each other's knowledge--was once the exclusive province of philosophers and puzzle solvers. More recently, this type of reasoning has been shown to play a key role in a surprising number of contexts, from understanding conversations to the analysis of distributed computer algorithms. Reasoning About Knowledge is the first book to provide a general discussion of approaches to reasoning about knowledge and its applications to distributed systems, artificial intelligence, and game theory. It brings eight years of work by the authors into a cohesive framework for understanding and analyzing reasoning about knowledge that is intuitive, mathematically well founded, useful in practice, and widely applicable. The book is almost completely self-contained and should be accessible to readers in a variety of disciplines, including computer science, artificial intelligence, linguistics, philosophy, cognitive science, and game theory. Each chapter includes exercises and bibliographic notes.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780262562003
- ISBN-10: 0262562006
- Publisher: Bradford Book
- Publish Date: January 2004
- Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.96 x 1.01 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.86 pounds
- Page Count: 544
- Reading Level: Ages 18-UP
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