Hector Levesque

My research is in the area of knowledge representation and reasoning in artificial intelligence. On the representation side, I've worked on the formalization of a number of concepts pertaining to artificial and natural agents including belief, goals, intentions, ability, and the interaction between knowledge, perception and action. On the reasoning side, my research mainly concerns how automated reasoning can be kept computationally tractable, including the use of local search methods.  More, you say?  Less?

• New Textbook: Thinking as Computation, MIT Press, 2012.
  Supplementary material for course instructors can be found here.

• Textbook: Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Morgan Kaufmann, 2004.
  Overhead slides for a course based on this book can be downloaded from here.

• Technical monograph: The Logic of Knowledge Bases, MIT Press, 2000.

• On Line Papers

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