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9780262562003

Reasoning About Knowledge

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  • ISBN13:

    9780262562003

  • ISBN10:

    0262562006

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2004-01-09
  • Publisher: Bradford Books

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Summary

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 Knowledgeis 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.

Author Biography

Ronald Fagin is Manager of the Foundations of Computer Science Group, Computer Science Department, IBM Almaden Research Center.

Joseph Y. Halpern is Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University. He is the author of Actual Causality and the coauthor of Reasoning about Knowledge, both published by the MIT Press.

Yoram Moses is Associate Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Hardcover Editionp. xi
Preface to the Paperback Editionp. xv
Introduction and Overviewp. 1
A Model for Knowledgep. 15
Completeness and Complexityp. 49
Knowledge in Multi-Agent Systemsp. 109
Protocols and Programsp. 163
Common Knowledge and Agreementp. 189
Knowledge-Based Programmingp. 253
Evolving Knowledgep. 303
Logical Omnisciencep. 333
Knowledge and Computationp. 391
Common Knowledge Revisitedp. 415
Bibliographyp. 463
Symbol Indexp. 489
Indexp. 493
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