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Record Nr.

UNISA996466159403316

Autore

Cadoli Marco

Titolo

Tractable Reasoning in Aritificial Intelligence [[electronic resource] /] / by Marco Cadoli

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 1995

ISBN

3-540-49422-7

Edizione

[1st ed. 1995.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (X, 286 p.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence ; ; 941

Disciplina

006.3/3

Soggetti

Artificial intelligence

Mathematical logic

Computers

Artificial Intelligence

Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages

Computation by Abstract Devices

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Language restriction: Complexity of minimal reasoning -- Approximation of a logical theory -- Using complexity results for evaluating approximation techniques -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

Logic is one of the most popular approaches to artificial intelligence. A potential obstacle to the use of logic is its high computational complexity, as logical inference is an extraordinarily powerful computational device. This book is concerned with computational aspects of the logical approach to AI. The focus is on two strategies for achieving computational tractability in knowledge representation and reasoning by language restriction and approximation. Several formalisms for knowledge representation are taken into account; among the computational problems studied are checking satisfiability and entailment of formulae, finding a model, and approximating and compiling a logical for.