Reasoning about knowledge
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Reasoning about knowledge
MIT Press, 2003, c1995
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [463]-487) and indexes
"First MIT Press paperback edition, 2003"--T.p. verso
Some copies have different pagination: 515 p.
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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 and its applications to distributed systems, artificial intelligence, and game theory. It brings eight years of work by the authors into a cohesive framework for understanding and analyzing reasoning about knowledge that is intuitive, mathematically well founded, useful in practice, and widely applicable. The book is almost completely self-contained and should be accessible to readers in a variety of disciplines, including computer science, artificial intelligence, linguistics, philosophy, cognitive science, and game theory. Each chapter includes exercises and bibliographic notes.
Table of Contents
- A model for knowledge and its properties
- completeness and complexity - results and techniques
- knowledge in distributed systems
- actions and protocols
- common knowledge, co-ordination and agreement
- evolving knowledge
- dealing with logical omniscience
- knowledge and computation
- common knowledge revisited.
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