Probabilistic Logic Networks - A Comprehensive Framework for Uncertain Inference (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2009)

Abstract In this chapter we provide an overview of probabilistic logic networks (PLN), including our motivations for developing PLN and the guiding principles underlying PLN. We discuss foundational choices we made, introduce PLN knowledge representation, and briefly introduce inference rules and truth-values. We also place PLN in context with other approaches to uncertain inference. 1.1 Motivations This book presents Probabilistic Logic Networks (PLN), a systematic and pragmatic framework for computationally carrying out uncertain reasoning - r- soning about uncertain data, and/or reasoning involving uncertain conclusions. We begin with a few comments about why we believe this is such an interesting and important domain of investigation. First of all, we hold to a philosophical perspective in which "reasoning" - properly understood - plays a central role in cognitive activity. We realize that other perspectives exist; in particular, logical reasoning is sometimes construed as a special kind of cognition that humans carry out only occasionally, as a deviation from their usual (intuitive, emotional, pragmatic, sensorimotor, etc.) modes of thought. However, we consider this alternative view to be valid only according to a very limited definition of "logic." Construed properly, we suggest, logical reasoning may be understood as the basic framework underlying all forms of cognition, including those conventionally thought of as illogical and irrational.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	November 2010
First published:	2009
Authors:	Ben Goertzel • Matthew Ikle • Izabela Freire Goertzel • Ari Heljakka
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	336
Edition:	Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2009
ISBN-13:	978-1-4419-4578-5
Categories:	Books > Computing & IT > General theory of computing > Mathematical theory of computation Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Applied mathematics > Mathematics for scientists & engineers Books > Computing & IT > Applications of computing > Artificial intelligence > General
LSN:	1-4419-4578-4
Barcode:	9781441945785

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