Doctoral Dissertations

Abstract

"As demands and ambitions increase in Artificial Intelligence, the need for formal systems that facilitate a study and a simulation of a machine cognition has become an inevitability. This paper explores and developes the foundations of a formal system for propositional reasoning about knowledge. The semantics of every meaningful expression in the system is fully determined by its intension, the set of complexes in which the expression is confirmed. The knowledge system is based on three zeroth-order theories of epistemic reasoning for consciousness, knowledge and entailed knowledge. The results presented in the paper determine the soundness and the completeness of the knowledge system. The modes of reasoning and the relations among the various epistemic notions emphasize the expressive power of the intensional paradigm"--Abstract, page ii.

Advisor(s)

Dekock, Arlan R.

Committee Member(s)

Gillett, Billy E.
Stanojevic, Caslav V., 1928-2008
Ho, C. Y. (Chung You), 1933-1988
Metzner, John R.

Department(s)

Computer Science

Degree Name

Ph. D. in Computer Science

Publisher

University of Missouri--Rolla

Publication Date

Summer 1987

Pagination

vi, 103 pages

Note about bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 97-102).

Rights

© 1987 Oliver Blagoj Popov, All rights reserved.

Document Type

Dissertation - Open Access

File Type

text

Language

English

Thesis Number

T 5562

Print OCLC #

18092305

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