Reasoning About Knowledge
- Paperback
536 pages
- Release Date
9 January 2004
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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262562003 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262562006 |
| Author: | Ronald Fagin, Yoram Moses, Joseph Y. Halpern, Moshe Vardi |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | Bradford Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 536 |
| Release Date: | 9 January 2004 |
| Weight: | 839g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 178mm x 25mm |
| Series: | Reasoning About Knowledge |
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Critics Review
It is easy to foresee that this book will become a classic.– Fabrizio Sebastiani , The Computer Journal–
It is easy to foresee that this book will become a classic.
– Fabrizio Sebastiani, The Computer JournalAbout The Author
Ronald Fagin
Ronald Fagin is Manager of the Foundations of Computer Science Group, Computer Science Department, IBM Almaden Research Center.Joseph Y. Halpern is Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University. He is the author of Actual Causality and the coauthor of Reasoning about Knowledge, both published by the MIT Press.Yoram Moses is Associate Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.
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