Format:
Online Ressource (xiii, 517 p.)
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ill.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9780262256094
,
0262256096
Content:
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
Note:
Title from title screen. - Title from website (viewed Jan. 20, 2006). - Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Additional Edition:
0262562006
Additional Edition:
9780262562003
Additional Edition:
0262562006
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Reasoning about knowledge Cambridge, Mass : MIT Press, 2003
Language:
English
Keywords:
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