Reasoning about knowledge /
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,...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
2003.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| 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. |
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| Item Description: | Title from title screen. Title from website (viewed Jan. 20, 2006). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 517 pages) : illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9780262256094 0262256096 |
| DOI: | 10.7551/mitpress/5803.001.0001 |