Iris van Rooij, Mark Blokpoel, Johan Kwisthout, Todd Wareham

Cognition and Intractability

A Guide to Classical and Parameterized Complexity Analysis

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Provides an accessible introduction to computational complexity analysis and its application to questions of intractability in cognitive science.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 374
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 213mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9781107043992
• ISBN-10: 1107043999
• Artikelnr.: 54316107

Autorenporträt

Iris van Rooij is a psychologist and cognitive scientist based at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour and the School for Psychology and Artificial Intelligence at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Introduction: 1. Introduction
Part II. Concepts and Techniques: 2. Polynomial versus exponential time
3. Polynomial-time reductions
4. Classical complexity classes
5. Fixed-parameter tractable time
6. Parameterized reductions
7. Parameterized complexity classes
Part III. Reflections and Elaborations: 8. Dealing with intractability
9. Replies to common objections
Part IV. Applications: 10. Coherence as constraint satisfaction
11. Analogy as structure mapping
12. Communication as Bayesian inference.