rjb@research.att.COM (12/18/87)
In reply to article <3237@lifia.UUCP> [gb@lifia.UUCP (Guilherme Bittencourt)]: Dear Guilherme, Among the best survey articles there are is one by Hector Levesque in the Annual Review of Computer Science, Vol. 1, 1986. This is published by Annual Reviews, Inc., of Palo Alto, California. Hector's article is entitled "Knowledge Representation and Reasoning." Ray Reiter has an article on "Nonmonotonic Reasoning," to appear in the next volume of the same series. You might also refer to our Readings in Knowledge Representation book (Morgan Kaufmann, 1985); it includes a brief introduction to the field, and a number of important articles highlighting, among other things, different techniques of KR. The section on KR in the AI Handbook is always a reasonable place to start, as well. Finally, I have just completed a brief (20-page) survey/tutorial article for the AT&T Technical Journal, entitled "The Basics of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning." I can send you a copy if you would like. - Ron Brachman