Information Flow and Knowledge Sharing, Volume 2 (Capturing Intelligence)

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The stated aim of the book series "Capturing Intelligence" is to publish books on research from all disciplines dealing with and affecting the issue of understanding and reproducing intelligence artificial systems. Of course, much of the work done in the past decades in this area has been of a highly technical nature, varying from hardware design for robots, software design for intelligent agents, and formal logic for reasoning.

It is therefore very refreshing to see Information Flow and Knowledge Sharing. This is a courageous book indeed. It is not afraid to tackle the Big Issues: notions such as information, knowledge, information system, information flow, collaborative problem solving, and ontological reasoning. All of these notions are crucial to our understanding of intelligence and our building of intelligent artificial systems, but all too often, these Big Issues are hidden behind the curtains while the technical topics take center stage.

AI has a rich history of philosophical books that have chosen a non-standard structure and narrative. It is nice to see that the authors have succeeded into combining a non-standard approach to deep questions with a non-standard format, resulting in a highly interesting volume.
Frank van Harmelen, Series Editor

Excerpt from the Introduction
Our interest is to promote, through a better and deeper understanding of the notions of information and knowledge, a better and deeper critical understanding of information technology as situated in the full range of human activities, assuming as a principle that this range of activities cannot be properly appreciated when it is reduced to the simplified means-end schema proposed by Technology. We invite the reader to build his/her own points of view about these notions, considering our propositions as a starting point for a critical analysis and discussion of these points. With that, we believe we are contributing to a better understanding of the impact of technology - and particularly of Information Technology - in everyday life.
Flavio Soares Correa da Silva, Jaume Agusti-Cullell


*Bridges the gap between the technological and philosophical aspects of information technology
*Analyzes essential notions of IT such as information, knowledge, information system, information flow, collaborative problem solving, and ontological reasoning

Information Flow and Knowledge Sharing, Volume 2 (Capturing Intelligence) Review

Through informal (but precise!) discussions, the concepts of information and knowledge are put together and contrasted. This is essential reading for our information-hungry, knowledge-seeking society.

Keeping away from (albeit important) technologies and specific computational techniques, the authors have managed to address deep philosophical issues in a fun and thought-provoking fashion. How does information flow? Is information essentially connected to communication? How knowledge sharing comes about? What are its challenges and how can these be overcome?

Although many of the discussions (and conclusions) are directly applicable to multi-agent systems and distributed (information) systems, to say that the book is only of interest to those communities is an injustice. Anyone interested in the issues that lie deep within our computerised systems -- their assumptions and their limitations -- would benefit by reading the book.

A series of notes placed in-between chapters -- the intermissions -- nicely relate the discussions with an interesting illustrative scenario. There are useful bibliographic notes at the end of each chapter where readers will find useful comments on relevant work to further their knowledge; this is particularly handy if the book is used as a textbook and further reading is required.

VERY IMPORTANT: in spite of what the book cover says about Correa Da Silva and Agusti-Cullell being the *editors* of the book (with the usual concern that the book is a collection of chapters written by different people), they are actually the *writers* of the book. So, readers can expect coherence and homogeneity in the contents of this book!

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