Reasoning about uncertainty

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Formal ways of representing uncertainty and various logics for reasoning about it; updated with new material on weighted probability measures, complexity-theoretic considerations, and other topics.

Abstract:
Formal ways of representing uncertainty and various logics for reasoning about it; updated with new material on weighted probability measures, complexity-theoretic considerations, and other topics.  Read more...

Author(s): Halpern, Joseph Y
Edition: Second edition
Publisher: The MIT Press
Year: 2017

Language: English
Pages: 488
Tags: Uncertainty (Information theory) -- Textbooks.;Probabilities -- Textbooks.;Reasoning -- Textbooks.;Logic, Symbolic and mathematical -- Textbooks.;SCIENCE -- System Theory.;TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Operations Research.;Logic, Symbolic and mathematical.;Probabilities.;Reasoning.;Uncertainty (Information theory);COMPUTER SCIENCE/General;COMPUTER SCIENCE/Artificial Intelligence;PHILOSOPHY/General

Content: Intro --
Contents --
Preface --
1 Introduction and Overview --
2 Representing Uncertainty --
3 Updating Beliefs --
4 Independence and Bayesian Networks --
5 Expectation --
6 Multi-Agent Systems --
7 Logics for Reasoning about Uncertainty --
8 Beliefs, Defaults, and Counterfactuals --
9 Belief Revision --
10 First-Order Modal Logic --
11 From Statistics to Beliefs --
12 Final Words --
References --
Glossary of Symbols --
Index.