Discourses on Social Software (Texts in Logic and Games, 5, Band 5) - Softcover

 
9789089641236: Discourses on Social Software (Texts in Logic and Games, 5, Band 5)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 9089641238 ISBN 13: 9789089641236
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

Can computer science solve our social problems? With Discourses on Social Software Jan Van Eijck and Rineke Verbrugge suggest it can, offering the reader a fascinating introduction to the innovative field of social software. Compiling a series of discussions involving a logician, a computer scientist, a philosopher, and a number of researchers from various other academic fields, this collection details the many ways in which the seemingly abstract disciplines of logic and computer science can be used to analyze and solve contemporary social problems.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Jan van Eijck is professor of computer science and computational linguistics at the CWI Amsterdam and Utrecht University. Rineke Verbrugge is professor of logic and cognition at the University of Groningen.



Edited by Jan Van Eijck, Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI), Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Rineke Verbrugge, Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Faculty of Mathematics and the Natural Sciences, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.

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Can computer scientists contribute to the solution of societal problems? Can logic help to model social interactions? Are there recipes for making groups with diverging preferences arrive at reasonable decisions? Why is common knowledge important for social interaction? Does the rational pursuit of individual interests put the public interest in danger, and if so, why? Discourses on Social Software sheds light on these and similar questions. This book offers the reader an ideal introduction to the exciting new field of social software. It shows in detail the many ways in which the seemingly abstract sciences of logic and computer science can be put to use to analyse and solve contemporary social problems.The unusual format of a series of discussions among a logician, a computer scientist, a philosopher and some researchers from other disciplines encourages the reader to develop his own point of view. The only requirements for reading this book are a nodding familiarity with logic, a curious mind, and a taste for spicy debate.

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Can computer scientists contribute to the solution of societal problems? Can logic help to model social interactions? Are there recipes for making groups with diverging preferences arrive at reasonable decisions? Why is common knowledge important for social interaction? Does the rational pursuit of individual interests put the public interest in danger, and if so, why? Discourses on Social Software sheds light on these and similar questions. This book offers the reader an ideal introduction to the exciting new field of social software. It shows in detail the many ways in which the seemingly abstract sciences of logic and computer science can be put to use to analyse and solve contemporary social problems.The unusual format of a series of discussions among a logician, a computer scientist, a philosopher and some researchers from other disciplines encourages the reader to develop his own point of view. The only requirements for reading this book are a nodding familiarity with logic, a curious mind, and a taste for spicy debate.

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Verlag
Amsterdam University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2009
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
9089641238
ISBN 13 
9789089641236
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
248
Herausgeber
Eijck Jan Van
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