Representations of Commonsense Knowledge provides a rich language for expressing commonsense knowledge and inference techniques for carrying out commonsense knowledge. This book provides a survey of the research on commonsense knowledge.

Organized into 10 chapters, this book begins with an overview of the basic ideas on artificial intelligence commonsense reasoning. This text then examines the structure of logic, which is roughly analogous to that of a programming language. Other chapters describe how rules of universal validity can be applied to facts known with absolute certainty to deduce other facts known with absolute certainty. This book discusses as well some prominent issues in plausible inference. The final chapter deals with commonsense knowledge about the interrelations and interactions among agents and discusses some issues in human and social interactions that have been studied in the artificial intelligence literature.

This book is a valuable resource for students on a graduate course on knowledge representation.

• Front Cover 2
• Representations of Commonsense Knowledge 5
• Copyright Page 6
• Dedication 7
• Preface 9
• Table of Contents 13
• List of Tables 18
• List of Named Axioms 24
• Chapter 1. Automating Common Sense 27
  • 1.1 Knowledge Bases 29
  • 1.2 Methodology 30
  • 1.3 Implementation 38
  • 1.4 The Role of Natural Language 40
  • 1.5 The Role of Logic 42
  • 1.6 Incomplete and Uncertain Knowledge 44