Artificial Intelligence 1 min read
Negotiation Bargaining
Bargaining is a simple form of the distributive negotiation process that is both competitive and positional. Bargaining doesn’t seek to…
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Artificial Intelligence 1 min read
What is agent communication?
Communication is necessary in order to allow collaboration, negotiation, cooperation, etc… between independent entities. For this purpose, it requires a…
Artificial Intelligence 3 min read
Truth Maintenance Systems
inferences drawn by the knowledge representation system will have only default status, rather than being absolutely certain. Inevitably, some of…
Artificial Intelligence 3 min read
Reasoning With Default Information
2 examples that violate the monotonicity property of logic (and thus are non-monotonic): semantic networks we saw that property inherited by all members…
Artificial Intelligence 5 min read
Reasoning Systems for Categories
2 families of systems designed for organizing and reasoning with categories: semantic networks – utilizing graphs and algorithms for inferring properties…
Artificial Intelligence 4 min read
Mental Events and Mental Objects
The agents we have constructed so far have beliefs and can deduce new beliefs. Yet none of them has any…
Artificial Intelligence 7 min read
Actions, Situations, and Events
reasoning about results of actions is central to a knowledge-based agent. propositional logic gave us an example of the wumpus…
Artificial Intelligence 2 min read
Categories and Objects
categories are an important aspect of general knowledge reasoning strict kind categories – an object is a triangle iff it is a…
Artificial Intelligence 1 min read
Ontological Engineering
ontological engineering – representing abstract concepts (e.g. actions, time, physical objects, and beliefsupper ontology – a general framework of concepts have to…
Artificial Intelligence 4 min read
What is knowledge representation?
Humans are best at understanding, reasoning, and interpreting knowledge. Human knows things, which is knowledge and as per their knowledge…
Artificial Intelligence 4 min read
Resolution
Resolution is a theorem proving technique that proceeds by building refutation proofs, i.e., proofs by contradictions. It was invented by…
Basics 2 min read
Backward Chaining
Backward-chaining is also known as a backward deduction or backward reasoning method when using an inference engine. A backward chaining…