Simon Herbert Bangert Livres

Herbert Simon's classic work on artificial intelligence in the expanded and updated third edition from 1996, with a new introduction by John E. Laird.

In this candid and witty autobiography, Nobel laureate Herbert A. Simon looks at his distinguished and varied career, continually asking himself whether (and how) what he learned as a scientist helps to explain other aspects of his life. A brilliant polymath in an age of increasing specialization, Simon is one of those rare scholars whose work defines fields of inquiry. Crossing disciplinary lines in half a dozen fields, Simon's story encompasses an explosion in the information sciences, the transformation of psychology by the information-processing paradigm, and the use of computer simulation for modeling the behavior of highly complex systems. Simon's theory of bounded rationality led to a Nobel Prize in economics, and his work on building machines that think—based on the notion that human intelligence is the rule-governed manipulation of symbols—laid conceptual foundations for the new cognitive science. Subsequently, contrasting metaphors of the maze (Simon's view) and of the mind (neural nets) have dominated the artificial intelligence debate. There is also a warm account of his successful marriage and of an unconsummated love affair, letters to his children, columns, a short story, and political and personal intrigue in academe.

This monumental work by Herbert A. Simon and Allan Newell, two pioneers of artificial intelligence, develops and defends the authors' theory of human reasoning. It will be of historical interest to students of the physical symbol system hypothesis in psychology, artificial intelligence, or cognitive science.

Die konkrete rechtliche Ausgestaltung des Direktanspruchs des Geschädigten gegen den Haftpflichtversicherer hat maßgeblichen Einfluss auf den Grad des durch die Haftpflichtversicherung vermittelten Sozialschutzes. Auf der Grundlage einer funktional rechtsvergleichenden Untersuchung des deutschen und englischen Rechts entwickelt Simon Herbert Bangert Kriterien für die optimale Ausgestaltung eines gesetzlichen Direktanspruchs und unterbreitet darauf aufbauend Reformvorschläge de lege ferenda für den deutschen Gesetzgeber. Ein besonderes Augenmerk legt er dabei auf die bezüglich des Geschädigtenschutzes neuralgischen Punkte des Direktanspruchs - wie beispielsweise die Frage, inwieweit der Haftpflichtversicherer dem Geschädigten Einwendungen aus dem Versicherungsvertragsverhältnis entgegensetzen kann.