Nonmonotonic Reasoning

Author : Grigoris Antoniou,Mary-Anne Williams
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0262011573

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Nonmonotonic Reasoning by Grigoris Antoniou,Mary-Anne Williams Pdf

Nonmonotonic reasoning provides formal methods that enable intelligent systems to operate adequately when faced with incomplete or changing information. In particular, it provides rigorous mechanisms for taking back conclusions that, in the presence of new information, turn out to be wrong and for deriving new, alternative conclusions instead. Nonmonotonic reasoning methods provide rigor similar to that of classical reasoning; they form a base for validation and verification and therefore increase confidence in intelligent systems that work with incomplete and changing information. Following a brief introduction to the concepts of predicate logic that are needed in the subsequent chapters, this book presents an in depth treatment of default logic. Other subjects covered include the major approaches of autoepistemic logic and circumscription, belief revision and its relationship to nonmonotonic inference, and briefly, the stable and well-founded semantics of logic programs.

Author : Matthew L. Ginsberg
Publisher : Morgan Kaufmann Publishers
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Computers
ISBN : UOM:39015013047181

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Readings in Nonmonotonic Reasoning by Matthew L. Ginsberg Pdf

Author : V. Wiktor Marek,Miroslaw Truszczynski
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783662029060

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Nonmonotonic Logic by V. Wiktor Marek,Miroslaw Truszczynski Pdf

When I first participated in exploring theories of nonmonotonic reasoning in the late 1970s, I had no idea of the wealth of conceptual and mathematical results that would emerge from those halting first steps. This book by Wiktor Marek and Miroslaw Truszczynski is an elegant treatment of a large body of these results. It provides the first comprehensive treatment of two influen tial nonmonotonic logics - autoepistemic and default logic - and describes a number of surprising and deep unifying relationships between them. It also relates them to various modal logics studied in the philosophical logic litera ture, and provides a thorough treatment of their applications as foundations for logic programming semantics and for truth maintenance systems. It is particularly appropriate that Marek and Truszczynski should have authored this book, since so much of the research that went into these results is due to them. Both authors were trained in the Polish school of logic and they bring to their research and writing the logical insights and sophisticated mathematics that one would expect from such a background. I believe that this book is a splendid example of the intellectual maturity of the field of artificial intelligence, and that it will provide a model of scholarship for us all for many years to come. Ray Reiter Department of Computer Science University of Toronto Toronto, Canada M5S 1A4 and The Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Table of Contents 1 1 Introduction .........

Author : Jürgen Dix,Ulrich Furbach,Anil Nerode
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1997-07-02
Category : Computers
ISBN : 3540632557

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Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning by Jürgen Dix,Ulrich Furbach,Anil Nerode Pdf

Development and environment problems have reached such alarming proportions that the very survival of humanity is now subject to critical and unprecedented threats. In its latest report, the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU) criticizes Germany's global change research community for its lack of international orientation, its bias towards individual disciplines and for its weaknesses in translating scientific results into a form readily accessible to policymakers. The Council identifies alternatives for restructuring the research landscape, focusing primarily on a new 'Syndrome Approach' for global change research. By applying this tool, scientists can systematically describe and analyze the 'diseases' afflicting the Earth System, and thus elaborate response options.

Author : Dritan Berzati
Publisher : Nova Publishers
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1594545626

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Nonmonotonic Reasoning by Dritan Berzati Pdf

The capability to reason in a world full of uncertainties, vagueness and ignorance is what distinguishes humans. This ability to argument in a partially known world is the informal definition of common-sense reasoning. The question how common-sense reasoning is performed occupied humanity since we can think of. Last century this issue reached an immense importance. Especially during the last three decades the study of common-sense reasoning became one of the major research topics in Artificial Intelligence (AI). Several formalisms to capture the mechanism of common-sense reasoning have been proposed so far. This book concentrates on presenting the most important formalisms for common-sense reasoning, and, showing that one of the discussed formalisms serves perfectly to capture the mechanism of common-sense reasoning, since this formalism subsumes all other in this book introduced formalisms dealing with common-sense reasoning.

Author : Gabriele Kern-Isberner
Publisher : Springer
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
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 : Alexander Bochman
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9789812561015

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Explanatory Nonmonotonic Reasoning by Alexander Bochman Pdf

Many approaches in the field of nonmonotonic and ?commonsense? reasoning are actually different representations of the same basic ideas and constructions. This book gives a logical formalization of the original, explanatory approach to nonmonotonic reasoning. It uses the basic formalism of biconsequence relations, as well as derived systems of default, autoepistemic and causal inference, to cover in a single framework such diverse systems as default logic, autoepistemic and modal nonmonotonic logics, input/output and causal logics, argumentation theory, and semantics of general logic programs with negation as failure. This approach provides a clear separation between logical (monotonic) and nonmonotonic aspects of nonmonotonic reasoning. The separation allows, in particular, to single out the logics underlying modern logic programming and restore thereby the connection between logic programming and logic.

Author : Gerhard Brewka
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1991-01-25
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0521383943

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Nonmonotonic Reasoning by Gerhard Brewka Pdf

This 1991 book gives an overview of different areas of research in nonmonotonic reasoning. The guiding principles are: clarification of the different research activities in the area and appreciation of the fact that these research activities often represent different means to the same ends, namely sound theoretical foundations and efficient computation.

Author : Michael Gelfond,Nicole Leone,Gerald Pfeifer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2003-06-26
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540467670

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Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning by Michael Gelfond,Nicole Leone,Gerald Pfeifer Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning, LPNMR '99, held in El Paso, Texas, USA, in December 1999. The volume presents 26 contributed papers and four invited talks, three appearing as extended abstracts and one as a full paper. Topics covered include logic programming, non-monotonic reasoning, knowledge representation, semantics, complexity, expressive power, and implementation and applicatons.

Author : Pedro Cabalar,Tran Cao Son
Publisher : Springer
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-12
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642405648

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Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning by Pedro Cabalar,Tran Cao Son Pdf

This volume contains the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning, LPNMR 2013, held in September 2013 in Corunna, Spain. The 34 revised full papers (22 technical papers, 9 application description, and 3 system descriptions) and 19 short papers (11 technical papers, 3 application descriptions, and 5 system descriptions) presented together with 2 invited talks, were carefully reviewed and selected from 91 submissions. Being a forum for exchanging ideas on declarative logic programming, nonmonotonic reasoning, and knowledge representation, the conference aims to facilitate interactions between those researchers and practitioners interested in the design and implementation of logic-based programming languages and database systems, and those who work in the area of knowledge representation and nonmonotonic reasoning.

Author : Thomas Eiter,Wolfgang Faber,Miroslaw Trusczynksi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2003-08-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540454021

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Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning by Thomas Eiter,Wolfgang Faber,Miroslaw Trusczynksi Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning, LPNMR 2001, held in Vienna, Austria in September 2001. The 22 revised full papers and eleven system descriptions presented with five invited papers were carefully reviewed and rigorously selected. Among the topics addressed are computational logic, declarative information extraction, model checking, inductive logic programming, default theories, stable logic programming, program semantics, incomplete information processing, concept learning, declarative specification, Prolog programming, many-valued logics, etc.

Author : Marcello Balduccini,Yuliya Lierler,Stefan Woltran
Publisher : Springer
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-23
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783030205287

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Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning by Marcello Balduccini,Yuliya Lierler,Stefan Woltran Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning, LPNMR 2019, held in Philadelphia, PA, USA, in June 2019. The 22 full papers and 3 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 39 submissions. The papers were organized in topical sections named: applications; argumentation; foundations and complexity; knowledge representation and reasoning; and systems.

Author : Chitta Baral,Gerhard Brewka,John Schlipf
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007-04-27
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540721994

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Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning by Chitta Baral,Gerhard Brewka,John Schlipf Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning, LPNMR 2007, held in Tempe, AZ, USA, May 2007. This conference encompasses theoretical studies, design and implementation of logic based programming languages and database systems, and development of experimental systems.

Author : Francesco Calimeri,Giovambattista Ianni,Miroslaw Truszczynski
Publisher : Springer
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-14
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319232645

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Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning by Francesco Calimeri,Giovambattista Ianni,Miroslaw Truszczynski Pdf

This volume contains the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning, LPNMR 2015, held in September 2015 in Lexington, KY, USA. The 290long and 11 short papers presented together with 3 invited talks, the paper reporting on the Answer Set Programming competition, and four papers presented by LPNMR student attendees at the doctoral consortium were carefully reviewed and selected from 60 submissions. LPNMR is a forum for exchanging ideas on declarative logic programming, nonmonotonic reasoning, and knowledge representation. The aim of the LPNMR conferences is to facilitate interactions between researchers interested in the design and implementation of logic-based programming languages and database systems, and researchers who work in the areas of knowledge representation and nonmonotonic reasoning.

Author : Vladimir Lifschitz
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2004-02-12
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540207214

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Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning by Vladimir Lifschitz Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning, LPNMR 2004, held in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA in January 2004. The 24 revised full papers presented together with 8 system descriptions were carefully reviewed and selected for presentation. Among the topics addressed are declarative logic programming, nonmonotonic reasoning, knowledge representation, combinatorial search, answer set programming, constraint programming, deduction in ontologies, and planning.