Theoretical Aspects of Reasoning About Knowledge: Proceedings of the 1986 Conference: 1st (Theoretical Aspects of Reasoning About Knowledge: Conference Proceedings) - Softcover

9780934613040: Theoretical Aspects of Reasoning About Knowledge: Proceedings of the 1986 Conference: 1st (Theoretical Aspects of Reasoning About Knowledge: Conference Proceedings)

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ISBN 10: 0934613044 ISBN 13: 9780934613040

Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann, 1986

Theoretical Aspects of Reasoning About Knowledge: Proceedings of the 1986 Conference focuses on the principles, methodologies, approaches, and concepts involved in reasoning about knowledge. The selection first provides an overview of reasoning about knowledge, varieties of self-reference, and pegs and alecs. Topics covered include data semantics, partial objects and identity, circumstance, self, and causal connection, structure of circumstance, varieties and limits of self-reference, problem of logical omniscience, and knowledge, communication, and action. The book then explores reasoning about knowledge in artificial intelligence; synthesis of digital machines with provable epistemic properties; and a first order theory of planning, knowledge, and action. The publication ponders on the consistency of syntactical treatments of knowledge, foundations of knowledge for distributed systems, knowledge and implicit knowledge in a distributed environment, and the logic of distributed protocols. Topics include formal syntax and semantics, structure of models, message-based knowledge worlds, changing the class of messages, implicit knowledge in message-based knowledge worlds, conservation and implicit knowledge, and distributed protocols. The selection is a dependable source of data for researchers interested in the theoretical aspects of reasoning about knowledge.

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