Reasoning About Knowledge | 
 enlarge | Authors: Ronald Fagin, Joseph Y. Halpern, Yoram Moses, Moshe Y. Vardi
Publisher: The MIT Press
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 1350554
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 477
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.6
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 7.4 x 1.3
ISBN: 0262061627
Dewey Decimal Number: 001
EAN: 9780262061629
ASIN: 0262061627
Publication Date: August 14, 1995
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Product Description
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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Great book July 5, 2000
17 out of 30 found this review helpful
I have used only part of the book. Most of the book is explained using the 'muddy children' example, which also serves to illustrate the complexities in automating a trivial puzzle for humans. The book also contains accessible coverage of Kripke structures and Aumann diagrams. This is quite a accessible introduction to a fairly complex subject.
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