Representations of Common Sense Knowledge (Morgan Kaufmann Series in Representation and Reasoning)

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A central goal of artificial intelligence is to give a computer program commonsense understanding of basic domains such as time, space, simple laws of nature, and simple facts about human minds. Many different systems of representation and inference have been developed for expressing such knowledge and reasoning with it. "Representations of Commonsense Knowledge" is the first thorough study of these techniques. The first three chapters of the book establish a general framework in domain-independent terms, discussing methodology, deductive logics, and theories of plausible inference. Subsequent chapters each deal with representations and inferences in specific domains: quantities, time, spac…