Reasoning about Uncertainty - Joseph Y. Halpern

Reasoning about Uncertainty

Buch | Hardcover
497 Seiten
2003
MIT Press (Verlag)
978-0-262-08320-1 (ISBN)
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Using formal systems to represent and reason about uncertainty.
Uncertainty is a fundamental and unavoidable feature of daily life; in order to deal with uncertaintly intelligently, we need to be able to represent it and reason about it. In this book, Joseph Halpern examines formal ways of representing uncertainty and considers various logics for reasoning about it. While the ideas presented are formalized in terms of definitions and theorems, the emphasis is on the philosophy of representing and reasoning about uncertainty; the material is accessible and relevant to researchers and students in many fields, including computer science, artificial intelligence, economics (particularly game theory), mathematics, philosophy, and statistics.Halpern begins by surveying possible formal systems for representing uncertainty, including probability measures, possibility measures, and plausibility measures. He considers the updating of beliefs based on changing information and the relation to Bayes' theorem; this leads to a discussion of qualitative, quantitative, and plausibilistic Bayesian networks. He considers not only the uncertainty of a single agent but also uncertainty in a multi-agent framework.
Halpern then considers the formal logical systems for reasoning about uncertainty. He discusses knowledge and belief; default reasoning and the semantics of default; reasoning about counterfactuals, and combining probability and counterfactuals; belief revision; first-order modal logic; and statistics and beliefs. He includes a series of exercises at the end of each chapter.

Joseph Y. Halpern is Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 3.10.2003
Zusatzinfo 12 illus.
Verlagsort Cambridge, Mass.
Sprache englisch
Maße 203 x 229 mm
Gewicht 957 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
Informatik Theorie / Studium Künstliche Intelligenz / Robotik
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-262-08320-5 / 0262083205
ISBN-13 978-0-262-08320-1 / 9780262083201
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