Knowledge Representation, Reasoning and Declarative Problem Solving

Klappentext Practitioner's guide to knowledge representation and reasoning using logic programming. Zusammenfassung Baral shows how to write programs that behave intelligently! by giving them the ability to express knowledge and to reason. This book will appeal to practising and would-be knowledge engineers wishing to learn more about the subject in courses or through self-teaching. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Declarative programming in AnsProlog*: introduction and preliminaries; 2. Simple modules for declarative programming with answer sets; 3. Principles and properties of declarative programming with answer sets; 4. Declarative problem solving and reasoning in AnsProlog*; 5. Reasoning about actions and planning in AnsProlog*; 6. Complexity, expressiveness, and other properties of AnsProlog* programs; 7. Answer set computing algorithms; 8. Query answering and answer set computing systems; 9. Further extensions of and alternatives to AnsProlog*; 10. Appendix A: Ordinals, lattices, and fixpoint theory; 11. Appendix B: Turing machines; Bibliography; Index of notation; Index of terms.

Product details

• Authors: Chitta Baral, Baral Chitta
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.01.2003
• EAN: 9780521818025
• ISBN: 978-0-521-81802-5
• Dimensions: 180 mm x 260 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Application software; COMPUTERS / Machine Theory, Mathematical theory of computation, COMPUTERS / Artificial Intelligence / Expert Systems