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IJCAI
1993
13 years 7 months ago
A Computational Model of Tractable Reasoning - Taking Inspiration from Cognition
Polynomial time complexity is the usual ‘threshold’ for distinguishing the tractable from the intractable and it may seem reasonable to adopt this notion of tractability in th...
Lokendra Shastri
KR
1994
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Modalities Over Actions, I. Model Theory
This paper analyzes a language for actions and the deontic modalities over actions -- i.e., the modalities permitted, forbidden and obligatory. The work is based on: (1) an action...
L. Thorne McCarty
KR
2000
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Approximate Objects and Approximate Theories
We propose to extend the ontology of logical AI to include approximate objects, approximate predicates and approximate theories. Besides the ontology we treat the relations among ...
John McCarthy
CL
2000
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Logic, Knowledge Representation, and Bayesian Decision Theory
In this paper I give a brief overview of recent work on uncertainty inAI, and relate it to logical representations. Bayesian decision theory and logic are both normative frameworks...
David Poole
IJCAI
1997
13 years 7 months ago
Change, Change, Change: Three Approaches
We consider the frame problem, that is, char­ acterizing the assumption that properties tend to persist over time. We show that there are at least three distinct assumptions that...
Tom Costello