| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 517 pages) : illustrations |
| Summary |
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 |
| Analysis |
COMPUTER SCIENCE/General |
| Notes |
Title from title screen |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Title from website (viewed January 20, 2006) |
| Subject |
Knowledge, Theory of.
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Agent (Philosophy)
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Reasoning.
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epistemology.
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SCIENCE -- Cognitive Science.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Cognitive Psychology.
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Agent (Philosophy)
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Knowledge, Theory of
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Reasoning
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Epistemologia.
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Raciocínio.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Fagin, Ronald
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| ISBN |
9780262256094 |
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0262256096 |
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