Epistemic Logic for Ai and Computer Science

Klappentext Epistemic logic has grown from its philosophical beginnings to find diverse applications in computer science as a means of reasoning about the knowledge and belief of agents. This book! based on courses taught at universities and summer schools! provides a broad introduction to the subject; many exercises are included together with their solutions. The authors begin by presenting the necessary apparatus from mathematics and logic! including Kripke semantics and the well-known modal logics K! T! S4 and S5. Then they turn to applications in the contexts of distributed systems and artificial intelligence: topics that are addressed include the notions of common knowledge! distributed knowledge! explicit and implicit belief! the interplays between knowledge and time! and knowledge and action! as well as a graded (or numerical) variant of the epistemic operators. The problem of logical omniscience is also discussed extensively. Halpern and Moses' theory of honest formulae is covered! and a digression is made into the realm of non-monotonic reasoning and preferential entailment. Moore's autoepistemic logic is discussed! together with Levesque's related logic of 'all I know'. Furthermore! it is shown how one can base default and counterfactual reasoning on epistemic logic. Zusammenfassung This book! based on courses taught at universities and summer schools! provides a broad introduction to the subject; many exercises are included with their solutions. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Basics: the modal approach to knowledge; 3. Various notions of knowledge and belief; 4. Knowledge and ignorance; 5. Default reasoning by epistemic logic; References; Appendices; Answers to exercises; Index.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: J. -J Ch Meyer, W. Van Der Hoek, W. van der Hoek, J. -J Ch Meyer, J. -J. Ch. Meyer, J.-J Ch. Meyer, J.-J Ch. Hoek Meyer, J.-J. Ch. (Universiteit Utrecht Meyer, John-Jules Ch Meyer
• Edition: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 25.03.2004
• EAN: 9780521602808
• ISBN: 978-0-521-60280-8
• Pages: 372
• Thèmes: Cambridge Tracts in Theoretical Computer Science; Cambridge Tracts in Theoretica
• Catégorie: Sciences naturelles, médecine, informatique, technique > Informatique, ordinateurs > Applications, programmes