Reasoning About Knowledge

By: Joseph Y. Halpern, Ronald Fagin, Yoram Moses, Moshe Vardi

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Paperback | 9 January 2004

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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.

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It is easy to foresee that this book will become a classic.

-- Fabrizio Sebastiani, The Computer Journal

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Non-Fiction Computing & I.T.Computer Science Artificial Intelligence Psychology Cognition & Cognitive Psychology Philosophy Epistemology & The Theory of Knowledge Economics Mathematics Optimisation Game Theory

Reference, Information & Interdisciplinary Subjects Research & Information Decision Theory Encyclopaedias & Reference Works Reference Works

Preface to the Hardcover Edition	p. xi
Preface to the Paperback Edition	p. xv
Introduction and Overview	p. 1
A Model for Knowledge	p. 15
Completeness and Complexity	p. 49
Knowledge in Multi-Agent Systems	p. 109
Protocols and Programs	p. 163
Common Knowledge and Agreement	p. 189
Knowledge-Based Programming	p. 253
Evolving Knowledge	p. 303
Logical Omniscience	p. 333
Knowledge and Computation	p. 391
Common Knowledge Revisited	p. 415
Bibliography	p. 463
Symbol Index	p. 489
Index	p. 493
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