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By
Flavio Correa da Silva, Department of Computer Science, University of Sao Paulo, Brasil
Edited By
Mary James
Frank van Harmelen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Jaume Agusti-Cullell, Campus de la UAB, Bellaterra, Spain
Included in series
Capturing Intelligence,
Description
Except from the Foreword
The stated aim of the book series "Capturing Intelligence" is to publish books on research from
all disciplines dealing with and affecting the issue of understanding and reproducing intelligence artificial systems. Of course, much
of the work done in the past decades in this area has been of a highly technical nature, varying from hardware design for robots, software
design for intelligent agents, and formal logic for reasoning.
It is therefore very refreshing to see Information Flow and Knowledge
Sharing. This is a courageous book indeed. It is not afraid to tackle the Big Issues: notions such as information, knowledge, information
system, information flow, collaborative problem solving, and ontological reasoning. All of these notions are crucial to our understanding
of intelligence and our building of intelligent artificial systems, but all too often, these Big Issues are hidden behind the curtains
while the technical topics take center stage.
AI has a rich history of philosophical books that have chosen a non-standard structure
and narrative. It is nice to see that the authors have succeeded into combining a non-standard approach to deep questions with a non-standard
format, resulting in a highly interesting volume.Frank van Harmelen, Series Editor
Excerpt from the Introduction
Our interest is to promote, through a better and deeper understanding of the notions of information and knowledge, a better and deeper
critical understanding of information technology as situated in the full range of human activities, assuming as a principle that this
range of activities cannot be properly appreciated when it is reduced to the simplified means-end schema proposed by Technology. We invite
the reader to build his/her own points of view about these notions, considering our propositions as a starting point for a critical analysis
and discussion of these points. With that, we believe we are contributing to a better understanding of the impact of technology – and
particularly of Information Technology – in everyday life. Flavio Soares Correa da Silva, Jaume Agusti-Cullell
Audience
IT industry professionals; scholars, researchers and students in IT, artificial intelligence, philosophy of science and philosophy of technology
Contents
1 Introduction
Intended audience
Chapters' contents
Intermission
2 Information
Agents and the world
Reality and structure
Information
systems
A non-rationalistic stance
Bibliographical notes
Intermission
3 Information Flow
Communicated information
Noise and distortion
Received information
Communication systems
The purpose of communication
Bibliographical notes
Intermission
4 Shared Understanding
Dialogues for shared understanding
Communication spaces
Productive dialogue
Facilitators for productive dialogues
Bibliographical
notes
Intermission
5 Collaborative Problem Solving
Coordinated action
Reliability and trust
Bibliographical notes
Intermission
6 Ontological Reasoning
Ontology
Patterns of interaction
Bibliographical notes
Intermission
7 Uncertainty
Controlled uncertainty
Trust, confidentiality and privacy
Bibliographical notes
Intermission
8 Knowledge Sharing
The illusion of life
Bibliographical
notes
Intermission
9 Knowledge
Bibliographical notes
10 Conclusion
Epilogue
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Hardbound, 296 pages, publication date: MAR-2008
ISBN-13: 978-0-444-52935-0
ISBN-10: 0-444-52935-7
Imprint: ELSEVIER
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