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Knowledge representation and reasoning /

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Knowledge representation is at the very core of a radical idea for understanding intelligence. Instead of trying to understand or build brains from the bottom up, its goal is to understand and build intelligent behavior from the top down, putting the focus on what an agent needs to know in order to...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brachman, Ronald J., 1949-
Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Other Authors: Levesque, Hector J., 1951-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Boston : Morgan Kaufmann, ©2004.
Subjects:
Knowledge representation (Information theory)
Reasoning.
Représentation des connaissances.
Raisonnement.
Reasoning
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The language of first-order logic
  • Expressing knowledge
  • Resolution
  • Reasoning with horn clauses
  • Procedural control of reasoning
  • Rules in production systems
  • Object-oriented representation
  • Structured descriptions
  • Inheritance
  • Defaults
  • Vagueness, uncertainty, and degrees of belief
  • Explanation and diagnosis
  • Actions
  • Planning
  • The tradeoff between expressiveness and tractability.