To be rational is to be able to reason. Thirty years ago psychologists believed that human
reasoning depended on formal rules of inference akin to those of a logical calculus. This …

▪ Abstract This chapter describes the main accounts of deductive competence, which explain
what is computed in carrying out deductions. It argues that people have a modicum of …

Intelligent agents are employed as the central characters in this new introductory text.
Beginning with elementary reactive agents, Nilsson gradually increases their cognitive …

A concise and lucid exposition of the major topics in knowledge representation, from two of
the leading authorities in the field.-Stuart Russell, UC Berkeley The information is valuable …

The authors outline a theory of conditionals of the form If A then C and If A then possibly C.
The 2 sorts of conditional have separate core meanings that refer to sets of possibilities …

This article addresses the special features of data mining with medical data. Researchers in
other fields may not be aware of the particular constraints and difficulties of the privacy …

Handbook of Knowledge Representation describes the essential foundations of Knowledge
Representation, which lies at the core of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The book provides an up …

The impressive recent performance of large language models has led many to wonder to
what extent they can serve as models of general intelligence or are similar to human …

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 …

Although the concept of niche has been extremely useful in sociological theory and
research, some aspects of the concept have not been clearly developed. This article …