Knowledge Representation and Reasoning by Brachman & Levesque 2004 9781558609327

Acceptable Condition. Some minor notes on inside cover. A few pages with underlining and small notes. 381 Pages. Thru Elsevier - Morgan Kaupmann Publisher. Hardcover. Synopsis "(The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Artificial Intelligence). Knowledge representation is at the very core of a radical idea for understanding intelligence. Instead of trying to understand or build brains from the bottom up, its goal is to understand and build intelligent behavior from the top down, putting the focus on what an agent needs to know in order to behave intelligently, how this knowledge can be represented symbolically, and how automated reasoning procedures can make this knowledge available as needed. This landmark text takes the central concepts of knowledge representation developed over the last 50 years and illustrates them in a lucid and compelling way. Each of the various styles of representation is presented 53-10-11-24-451