Conditionals In Nonmonotonic Reasoning And Belief Revision

Author : Gabriele Kern-Isberner
Publisher : Springer
Page : 194 pages
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Release : 2003-06-29
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540446002

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Conditionals in Nonmonotonic Reasoning and Belief Revision by Gabriele Kern-Isberner Pdf

Conditionals are omnipresent, in everyday life as well as in scientific environments; they represent generic knowledge acquired inductively or learned from books. They tie a flexible and highly interrelated network of connections along which reasoning is possible and which can be applied to different situations. Therefore, conditionals are important, but also quite problematic objects in knowledge representation. This book presents a new approach to conditionals which captures their dynamic, non-proportional nature particularly well by considering conditionals as agents shifting possible worlds in order to establish relationships and beliefs. This understanding of conditionals yields a rich theory which makes complex interactions between conditionals transparent and operational. Moreover,it provides a unifying and enhanced framework for knowledge representation, nonmonotonic reasoning, belief revision,and even for knowledge discovery.

Author : Gabriele Kern-Isberner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3662188562

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Conditionals in Nonmonotonic Reasoning and Belief Revision by Gabriele Kern-Isberner Pdf

Author : Isaac Levi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1996-01-26
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780521497138

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For the Sake of the Argument by Isaac Levi Pdf

Suppositions made "for the sake of the argument" sometimes conflict with our beliefs, and when they do, some beliefs are rejected and others retained. Thanks to such hypothetical belief contravention, adding content to a supposition can undermine conclusions reached without it. Subversion can also arise because suppositional reasoning is ampliative. These two types of nonmonotonicity are the focus of this book.

Author : Thomas Eiter,Klaus-Dieter Schewe
Publisher : Springer
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2003-07-31
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540457589

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Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems by Thomas Eiter,Klaus-Dieter Schewe Pdf

This volume contains the papers presented at the “Second International S- posium on Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems” (FoIKS 2002), which was held in Schloß Salzau, Germany from February 20th to 23rd, 2002. FoIKS is a biennial event focusing on theoretical foundations of information and knowledge systems. It aims to bring together researchers working on the theoretical foundations of information and knowledge systems and to attract researchers working in mathematical ?elds such as discrete mathematics, c- binatorics, logics, and ?nite model theory who are interested in applying their theories to research on database and knowledge base theory. FoIKS took up the tradition of the conference series “Mathematical Fundamentals of Database S- tems” (MFDBS) which enabled East-West collaboration in the ?eld of database theory. The ?rst FoIKS symposium was held in Burg, Spreewald (Germany) in 2000. Former MFDBS conferences were held in Dresden (Germany) in 1987, Visegr ́ ad (Hungary) in 1989, and in Rostock (Germany) in 1991. Proceedings of these previous events were published by Springer-Verlag as volumes 305, 364, 495, and 1762 of the LNCS series. In addition the FoIKS symposium is intended to be a forum for intensive d- cussions. For this reason the time slot of long and short contributions is 60 and 30 minutes respectively, followed by 30 and 15 minutes for discussions, respectively. Furthermore, participants are asked in advance to prepare as correspondents to a contribution of another author. There are also special sessions for the pres- tation and discussion of open research problems.

Author : Bernd Reusch
Publisher : Springer
Page : 1020 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2003-06-30
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540454939

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Computational Intelligence. Theory and Applications by Bernd Reusch Pdf

Ten years of ,,Fuzzy Days“ in Dortmund! What started as a relatively small workshop in 1991 has now become one of the best known smaller conferences on Computational Intelligence in the world. It fact, it was (to my best knowledge) the ?rst conference to use this term, in 1994, although I confess that another, larger conference was announced ?rst and the trade mark “Computational Intelligence was not coined in Dortmund. I believe, that the success of this conference is grounded on the quality of its reviewedandinvitedpapersaswellasitsgoodorganization. Fromthebeginning, we have sent every paper anonymously to ?ve referees, and we have always accepted only around 50% of the papers sent in. This year it was a little less than that. I would like to thank everybody who helped us by considering Dortmund’s Fuzzy Days as the conference at which to appear. I know that among the - stracts not accepted there were some quite good ones, but we were restricted to a ?xed number. I also know that referees do a good job but cannot always judge wisely from abstracts. Hence my apologies to those who did not make it this year. Please try again! I would like to point out that our conference also has a good regional re- tation. I am grateful to the City of Dortmund, its Lord Mayor Dr. Langemeyer, the Dortmund project, the DFG – Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, the KVR – Kommunalverband Ruhrgebiet, the Martin-Schmeißer-Stiftung, and the C- line AG/Quantum GmbH for their valuable support.

Author : Alexander Raschke,Elvinia Riccobene,Klaus-Dieter Schewe
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-04
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783030760205

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Logic, Computation and Rigorous Methods by Alexander Raschke,Elvinia Riccobene,Klaus-Dieter Schewe Pdf

This Festschrift was published in honor of Egon Börger on the occasion of his 75th birthday. It acknowledges Prof. Börger's inspiration as a scientist, author, mentor, and community organizer. Dedicated to a pioneer in the fields of logic and computer science, Egon Börger's research interests are unusual in scope, from programming languages to hardware architectures, software architectures, control systems, workflow and interaction patterns, business processes, web applications, and concurrent systems. The 18 invited contributions in this volume are by leading researchers in the areas of software engineering, programming languages, business information systems, and computer science logic.

Author : Zied Bouraoui,Srdjan Vesic
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-20
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783031456084

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Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty by Zied Bouraoui,Srdjan Vesic Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty, ECSQARU 2023, held in Arras, France, in September 2023. The 35 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 46 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections about Complexity and Database Theory; Formal Concept Analysis: Theoretical Advances; Formal Concept Analysis: Applications; Modelling and Explanation; Semantic Web and Graphs; Posters.

Author : Gabriele Kern-Isberner,Wilhelm Rödder,Friedhelm Kulmann
Publisher : Springer
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2005-05-13
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540322351

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Conditionals, Information, and Inference by Gabriele Kern-Isberner,Wilhelm Rödder,Friedhelm Kulmann Pdf

Conditionals are fascinating and versatile objects of knowledge representation. On the one hand, they may express rules in a very general sense, representing, for example, plausible relationships, physical laws, and social norms. On the other hand, as default rules or general implications, they constitute a basic tool for reasoning, even in the presence of uncertainty. In this sense, conditionals are intimately connected both to information and inference. Due to their non-Boolean nature, however, conditionals are not easily dealt with. They are not simply true or false — rather, a conditional “if A then B” provides a context, A, for B to be plausible (or true) and must not be confused with “A entails B” or with the material implication “not A or B.” This ill- trates how conditionals represent information, understood in its strict sense as reduction of uncertainty. To learn that, in the context A, the proposition B is plausible, may reduce uncertainty about B and hence is information. The ab- ity to predict such conditioned propositions is knowledge and as such (earlier) acquired information. The ?rst work on conditional objects dates back to Boole in the 19th c- tury, and the interest in conditionals was revived in the second half of the 20th century, when the emerging Arti?cial Intelligence made claims for appropriate formaltoolstohandle“generalizedrules.”Sincethen,conditionalshavebeenthe topic of countless publications, each emphasizing their relevance for knowledge representation, plausible reasoning, nonmonotonic inference, and belief revision.

Author : Arne Meier
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031569401

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Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems by Arne Meier Pdf

Author : Hans Rott
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0198503067

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Change, Choice and Inference by Hans Rott Pdf

This work develops logical theories necessary to understand adaptable human reasoning & the design ofintelligent systems. It unifies lively & significant strands of research in logic, philosophy, economics & artificial intelligence.

Author : Ute Schmid,Franziska Klügl,Diedrich Wolter
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783030582852

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KI 2020: Advances in Artificial Intelligence by Ute Schmid,Franziska Klügl,Diedrich Wolter Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 43rd German Conference on Artificial Intelligence, KI 2020, held in Bamberg, Germany, in September 2020. The 16 full and 12 short papers presented together with 6 extended abstracts in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 62 submissions. As well-established annual conference series KI is dedicated to research on theory and applications across all methods and topic areas of AI research. KI 2020 had a special focus on human-centered AI with highlights on AI and education and explainable machine learning. Due to the Corona pandemic KI 2020 was held as a virtual event.

Author : Wolfgang Faber,Gerhard Friedrich,Martin Gebser,Michael Morak
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-12
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783030757755

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Logics in Artificial Intelligence by Wolfgang Faber,Gerhard Friedrich,Martin Gebser,Michael Morak Pdf

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence, JELIA 2021, held as a virtual event, in May 2021. The 27 full papers and 3 short papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 68 submissions. The accepted papers span a number of areas within Logics in AI, including: argumentation; belief revision; reasoning about actions, causality, and change; constraint satisfaction; description logics and ontological reasoning; non-classical logics; and logic programming (answer set programming).

Author : Christian Straßer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319007922

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Adaptive Logics for Defeasible Reasoning by Christian Straßer Pdf

This book presents adaptive logics as an intuitive and powerful framework for modeling defeasible reasoning. It examines various contexts in which defeasible reasoning is useful and offers a compact introduction into adaptive logics. The author first familiarizes readers with defeasible reasoning, the adaptive logics framework, combinations of adaptive logics, and a range of useful meta-theoretic properties. He then offers a systematic study of adaptive logics based on various applications. The book presents formal models for defeasible reasoning stemming from different contexts, such as default reasoning, argumentation, and normative reasoning. It highlights various meta-theoretic advantages of adaptive logics over other logics or logical frameworks that model defeasible reasoning. In this way the book substantiates the status of adaptive logics as a generic formal framework for defeasible reasoning.

Author : Eyke Hüllermeier,Sebastian Link,Thomas Fober,Bernhard Seeger
Publisher : Springer
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-11
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642333620

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Scalable Uncertainty Management by Eyke Hüllermeier,Sebastian Link,Thomas Fober,Bernhard Seeger Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management, SUM 2012, held in Marburg, Germany, in September 2012. The 41 revised full papers and 13 revised short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 75 submissions. The papers cover topics in all areas of managing and reasoning with substantial and complex kinds of uncertain, incomplete or inconsistent information including applications in decision support systems, machine learning, negotiation technologies, semantic web applications, search engines, ontology systems, information retrieval, natural language processing, information extraction, image recognition, vision systems, data and text mining, and the consideration of issues such as provenance, trust, heterogeneity, and complexity of data and knowledge.

Author : Marc Gyssens,Guillermo Simari
Publisher : Springer
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783319300245

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Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems by Marc Gyssens,Guillermo Simari Pdf

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems, FoIKS 2016, held in Linz, Austria, in March 2016. The 14 revised full papers presented papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 23 submissions. The papers address various topics such as reasoning about beliefs, uncertainty, incompleteness, and inconsistency, inference and problem solving, querying and pattern mining, dealing with knowledge, logics and complexity.