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                       Reasoning About Knowledge
  by Ronald Fagin, Joseph Y. Halpern, Yoram Moses, and Moshe Y. Vardi

  Reasoning About Knowledge is the first book to provide a general
discussion of approaches to reasoning about knowledge and its
applications to distributed systems, artificial intelligence, and game
theory. It brings ten years of work by the authors into a cohesive
framework for understanding and analyzing reasoning about knowledge 
that is intuitive, mathematically well founded, useful in practice, 
and widely applicable. The book is almost completely self-contained 
and should be accessible to readers in a variety of disciplines, 
including computer science, artificial intelligence, linguistics, 
philosophy, cognitive science, and game theory. Each chapter includes 
excercises and bibliographic notes.

**Advance praise for Reasoning About Knowledge**

  "The result of the authors' research bears the twin hallmarks of good
science: beauty and utility." -- Vassos Hadzilacos, Computer Science 
Department, University of Toronto
  "[Reasoning About Knowledge] is an impressive systematic technical
effort, which will no doubt become a standard reference."
-- Johan van Benthem, Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation,
University of Amsterdam, and Philosophy Department, Stanford University
  "It is a must for any student or scholar who really wants to 
understand the logic of knowledge and interactive knowledge, and an 
ideal text for an advanced course." -- Ariel Rubinstein, Department of 
Economics, Tel Aviv University and Princeton University
  "This is without a doubt the definitive book on the topic ... [It] is
also a joy to read ...  Anyone conducting formal work in multi-agent
systems without access to this book will do so at their peril."
-- Yoav Shoham, Computer Science Department, Stanford University
  For more information on this title, and other MIT Press books, 
please consult our _WWW site_ at  URL: http://www-mitpress.mit.edu/