Chapter 1. Introduction --- Chapter 2. The Language of First-Order Logic --- Chapter 3. Expressing Knowledge --- Chapter 4. Resolution --- Chapter 5. Reasoning with Horn Clauses --- Chapter 6. Procedural Control of Reasoning --- Chapter 7. Rules in Production Systems --- Chapter 8. Object-Oriented Representation --- Chapter 9. Structured Descriptions --- Chapter 10. Inheritance --- Chapter 11. Defaults--- Chapter 12. Vagueness, Uncertainty, and Degrees of Belief --- Chapter 13. Explanation and Diagnosis --- Chapter 14. Actions
Summary
Knowledge representation is at the very core of a radical idea for understanding intelligence. This book talks about the central concepts of knowledge representation developed over the years. It is suitable for researchers and practitioners in database management, information retrieval, object-oriented systems and artificial intelligence
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-375) and index