Knowledge representation and reasoning /

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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Main Author: Brachman, Ronald J., 1949-
Other Authors: Levesque, Hector J., 1951-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Boston : Morgan Kaufmann, ©2004.
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Online Access:CONNECT
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.