Series Editor:
Frank van Harmelen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Edited by
Mary James
By
Flavio Correa da Silva, Department of Computer Science, University of Sao Paulo, Brasil
Jaume Agusti-Cullell, Campus de la UAB, Bellaterra, Spain
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
Included in series
Capturing Intelligence
Audience:
IT industry professionals; scholars, researchers and students in IT, artificial intelligence, philosophy of science and philosophy of technology
