Author: Ron Sun

Publisher/Date: John Wiley, 1994

ISBN: 0471593249

Format/Condition: USED hardcover book with dustjacket, fine condition, 273 pages

Description: From the dust jacket: In Integrating Rules and Connectionism for Robust Commonsense Reasoning, several important theoretical and technical issues are addressed:

.A formal analysis of the rules of the encoding scheme, crucial to an under- standing of rule encoding in connectionist architectures, reveals that it handles a superset of some important logics.

.Variables are added to improve the rule-based reasoning capability of the connectionist architecture, giving rise to a proF?osed solution to the thorny connectionist variable binding problem that offers numerous advantages over existing solutions.
.In exploring the notion of causality, it is revealed that commonsense causal knowledge can be well represented in connectionist frameworks, particu- larly in the one outlined in the book.

.In examining several other aspects of the architecture, it becomes clear that connectionist models can supplement, enhance, and integrate symbolic rule-based reasoning in tackling commonsense reasoning.

Integrating Rules and Connectionism for Robust Commonsense Reasoning will prove to be an important reference for a wide range of researchers and students in AI, cognitive science, neural networks, and related areas, includ ing those who are striving for a new generation of commonsensical intelligent systems, those seeking a multidisciplinary approach to AI problems, and those who are simply intrigued by the broad subject of modeling and understanding cognitive processes.