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By
Ronald Brachman
Hector Levesque
Description
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 behave intelligently, how this knowledge can be represented symbolically, and how automated reasoning procedures
can make this knowledge available as needed.
This landmark text takes the central concepts of knowledge representation developed over
the last 50 years and illustrates them in a lucid and compelling way. Each of the various styles of representation is presented in a
simple and intuitive form, and the basics of reasoning with that representation are explained in detail. This approach gives readers
a solid foundation for understanding the more advanced work found in the research literature. The presentation is clear enough to be
accessible to a broad audience, including researchers and practitioners in database management, information retrieval, and object-oriented
systems as well as artificial intelligence. This book provides the foundation in knowledge representation and reasoning that every AI
practitioner needs.
Audience
Industry professionals and researchers in AI, database management, informaiton retireval, object-oriented systems, and programming languages.
Contents
1 Introduction * 2 The Language of First-Order Logic *3 Expressing Knowledge * 4 Resolution * 5 Horn Logic * 6 Procedural Control of Reasoning
* 7 Rules in Production Systems * 8 Object-Oriented Representation * 9 Structured Descriptions * 10 Inheritance * 11 Numerical Uncertainty
*12 Defaults *13 Abductive Reasoning *14 Actions * 15 Planning *16 A Knowledge Representation Tradeoff * Bibliography * Index
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Hardbound, 381 pages, publication date: MAY-2004
ISBN-13: 978-1-55860-932-7
ISBN-10: 1-55860-932-6
Imprint: MORGAN KAUFFMAN
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