Reasoning about Knowledge
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Book Overview
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.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0262061627
ISBN13:9780262061629
Release Date:August 1995
Publisher:MIT Press (MA)
Length:477 Pages
Weight:2.35 lbs.
Dimensions:1.3" x 7.4" x 9.3"
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2 ratings
Good Book
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 20 years ago
This is a good book, though it's hard to penetrate at times. It's comprehensive and you learn a lot going thru it slowly; my background is in economics/game theory so this contains a treatment of reasoning & knowledge one usually doesn't see in economics. My only -- and major -- gripe with the book is that it sometimes becomes very involved with a particular theorem/result without discussing why that is an interesting question/puzzle. As such, it's a great book when you already have motivation to learn this stuff and a puzzle to which you want to apply its techniques.
Great book
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
I have used only part of the book. Most of the book is explained using the 'muddy children' example, which also serves to illustrate the complexities in automating a trivial puzzle for humans. The book also contains accessible coverage of Kripke structures and Aumann diagrams. This is quite a accessible introduction to a fairly complex subject.
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