The Logic of Knowledge Bases

The Logic of Knowledge Bases
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Publisher : MIT Press
Total Pages : 316
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ISBN-10 : 0262263491
ISBN-13 : 9780262263498
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Book Synopsis The Logic of Knowledge Bases by : Hector J. Levesque

Download or read book The Logic of Knowledge Bases written by Hector J. Levesque and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2001-02-15 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes in detail the relationship between symbolic representations of knowledge and abstract states of knowledge, exploring along the way the foundations of knowledge, knowledge bases, knowledge-based systems, and knowledge representation and reasoning. The idea of knowledge bases lies at the heart of symbolic, or "traditional," artificial intelligence. A knowledge-based system decides how to act by running formal reasoning procedures over a body of explicitly represented knowledge—a knowledge base. The system is not programmed for specific tasks; rather, it is told what it needs to know and expected to infer the rest. This book is about the logic of such knowledge bases. It describes in detail the relationship between symbolic representations of knowledge and abstract states of knowledge, exploring along the way the foundations of knowledge, knowledge bases, knowledge-based systems, and knowledge representation and reasoning. Assuming some familiarity with first-order predicate logic, the book offers a new mathematical model of knowledge that is general and expressive yet more workable in practice than previous models. The book presents a style of semantic argument and formal analysis that would be cumbersome or completely impractical with other approaches. It also shows how to treat a knowledge base as an abstract data type, completely specified in an abstract way by the knowledge-level operations defined over it.


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