Knowledge Representation, Reasoning and Declarative Problem Solving

by Chitta Baral

• ISBN13: 9780521147750
• ISBN10: 0521147751
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-06-24
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Knowledge management and knowledge-based intelligence are areas of importance in the economy and society, and to exploit them fully and efficiently it is necessary both to represent and reason about knowledge via a declarative interface whose input language is based on logic. In this book, originally published in 2003, Chitta Baral shows exactly how to go about doing that: how to write programs that behave intelligently by giving them the ability to express knowledge and reason about it. He presents a language, AnsProlog, for both knowledge representation and reasoning, and declarative problem solving. The results have been organised here into a form that will appeal to practising and would-be knowledge engineers wishing to learn more about the subject, either in courses or through self-teaching. A comprehensive bibliography rounds off the book.

Table of Contents

Preface

Declarative programming in AnsProlog*: introduction and preliminaries

Simple modules for declarative programming with answer sets

Principles and properties of declarative programming with answer sets

Declarative problem solving and reasoning in AnsProlog*

Reasoning about actions and planning in AnsProlog*

Complexity, expressiveness, and other properties of AnsProlog* programs

Answer set computing algorithms

Query answering and answer set computing systems

Further extensions of and alternatives to AnsProlog*

Appendix A: Ordinals, lattices, and fixpoint theory

Appendix B: Turing machines

Bibliography

Index of notation

Index of terms

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