Book review: Representing Uncertain Knowledge by Paul Krause and Dominic Clark (Kluwer Academic Publishers Group, 1993)

  • Authors:
  • Richard Ferrante

  • Affiliations:
  • Gensym Corporation 125 CambridgePark Dr. Cambridge, MA 02140 Email: rdf@ gensym.com

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGART Bulletin
  • Year:
  • 1996

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Abstract

Readers looking for a thorough introduction to methods for representing uncertainty in AI will find this book useful. Krause and Clark couple a detailed account of the motivation and context for each technique with a critical eye that avoids presenting any approach as a panacea. This approach allows the reader to develop an understanding of each technique's utility while remaining aware of its limitations. As is appropriate in a field in which the particulars are rapidly changing (over 400 papers are published each year on this topic), the authors focus on the "foundations and intuitions" underlying the technique and do not attempt to provide up to date coverage of its latest refinements.