Commonsense Reasoning: An Event Calculus Based Approach - Couverture souple

Mueller, Erik T.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0128014164 ISBN 13 : 9780128014165

Editeur : Morgan Kaufmann, 2014

Synopsis

To endow computers with common sense is one of the major long-term goals of artificial intelligence research. One approach to this problem is to formalize commonsense reasoning using mathematical logic. Commonsense Reasoning: An Event Calculus Based Approach is a detailed, high-level reference on logic-based commonsense reasoning. It uses the event calculus, a highly powerful and usable tool for commonsense reasoning, which Erik Mueller demonstrates as the most effective tool for the broadest range of applications. He provides an up-to-date work promoting the use of the event calculus for commonsense reasoning, and bringing into one place information scattered across many books and papers. Mueller shares the knowledge gained in using the event calculus and extends the literature with detailed event calculus solutions that span many areas of the commonsense world. The Second Edition features new chapters on commonsense reasoning using unstructured information including the Watson system, commonsense reasoning using answer set programming, and techniques for acquisition of commonsense knowledge including crowdsourcing.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

"A comprehensive exposition of reasoning about actions and change using the circumscription-based Event Calculus. The book has an excellent up-to-date bibliography on actions and change.”
-Chitta Baral, Arizona State University

"Central to the idea of Artificial Intelligence is getting computers to understand simple facts about people and everyday life-what we call Common Sense. Amid the technical discussions about inference algorithms and knowledge representation, a larger question arises: What have we actually learned in the past 30 years about how to put Commonsense knowledge in computers? Look no further than Erik Mueller's Commonsense Reasoning for a deep and insightful survey of the state of the art in this topic. Some say that Commonsense defies logic; here Mueller shows that logic, at least, can put up a good fight.”
-Henry Lieberman, MIT Media Laboratory

"Erik Mueller has given the most thorough treatment of common sense knowledge and reasoning yet to appear.”
-John McCarthy, Stanford University

"The strength of this book is that it uses a uniform representation formalism, the event calculus, to solve a variety of commonsense reasoning problems. Researchers will find the book an inspiring tool which provides many ideas for applications of action formalisms. Thanks to both the exemplary presentation style and numerous examples, the book is also well-suited for teachers and students alike.”
-Michael Thielscher, Dresden University of Technology

"Developing systems that can perform actions and deal with change is a major challenge in intelligent system design, because it requires the construction of sophisticated models for knowledge representation and reasoning. This book provides important ideas and methods which can be used to model commonsense reasoning about events in complex and dynamic environments. The content is well thought out, and difficult topics are presented in highly accessible ways. The author tells a compelling story that highlights the utility of event calculus for applications that require commonsense models of action and change.”
-Mary-Anne Williams, University of Technology, Sydney, and Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Inc.

People with better commonsense than others are better observers of context and have more patterns that are more readily accessible.
Nevertheless, commonsense reasoning is an important area of study. Mueller's book will be valuable to those involved in this field.- Robert W. Ferguson, Software Quality Professional 12/06-2/07

Présentation de l'éditeur

To endow computers with common sense is one of the major long-term goals of artificial intelligence research. One approach to this problem is to formalize commonsense reasoning using mathematical logic. Commonsense Reasoning: An Event Calculus Based Approach is a detailed, high-level reference on logic-based commonsense reasoning. It uses the event calculus, a highly powerful and usable tool for commonsense reasoning, which Erik Mueller demonstrates as the most effective tool for the broadest range of applications. He provides an up-to-date work promoting the use of the event calculus for commonsense reasoning, and bringing into one place information scattered across many books and papers. Mueller shares the knowledge gained in using the event calculus and extends the literature with detailed event calculus solutions that span many areas of the commonsense world.

The Second Edition features new chapters on commonsense reasoning using unstructured information including the Watson system, commonsense reasoning using answer set programming, and techniques for acquisition of commonsense knowledge including crowdsourcing.

Drawing upon years of practical experience and using numerous examples and illustrative applications Erik Mueller shows you the keys to mastering commonsense reasoning. You’ll be able to:

• Understand techniques for automated commonsense reasoning
• Incorporate commonsense reasoning into software solutions
• Acquire a broad understanding of the field of commonsense reasoning.
• Gain comprehensive knowledge of the human capacity for commonsense reasoning

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Morgan Kaufmann
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0128014164
• ISBN 13: 9780128014165
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 516
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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