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CSL
2006
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Nonmonotonic Logics and Their Algebraic Foundations
The goal of this note is to provide a background and references for the invited lecture presented at Computer Science Logic 2006. We briefly discuss motivations that led to the eme...
Miroslaw Truszczynski
LPNMR
1993
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
An Assumption-Based Framework for Non-Monotonic Reasoning
The notion of assumption-based framework generalises and re nes the use of abduction to give a formalisation of non-monotonic reasoning. In this framework, a sentence is a non-mon...
Andrei Bondarenko, Francesca Toni, Robert A. Kowal...
IJCAI
1993
13 years 7 months ago
The Range of Applicability of Nonmonotonic Logics for the Inertia Problem
We introduce and use a new methodology for the study of logics for action and change. The methodology allows one to define a taxonomy of reasoning problems, based in particular on...
Erik Sandewall
AAAI
1994
13 years 7 months ago
A Preference-Based Approach to Default Reasoning: Preliminary Report
An approach to nonmonotonic inference, based on preference orderings between possible worlds or states of affairs, is presented. We begin with an extant weak theory of default con...
James P. Delgrande
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