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KGC
1993
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Nonmonotonic Reasoning is Sometimes Simpler
We establish the complexity of decision problems associated with the nonmonotonic modal logic S4. We prove that the problem of existence of an S4-expansion for a given set A of pr...
Grigori Schwarz, Miroslaw Truszczynski
IJCAI
1989
13 years 6 months ago
Sometimes Updates Are Circumscription
Model-based revision of knowledge bases ex­ pressed as first-order theories was shown in [Winslett 88b] to be useful as a means of de­ scribing and reasoning about the effects o...
Marianne Winslett
TARK
1998
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Simulative Inference About Nonmonotonic Reasoners
If one has attributed certain initial beliefs to an agent, it is sometimes possible to reason about further beliefs the agent must hold by observing what conclusions one's ow...
Aaron N. Kaplan
CL
2000
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
A New Equational Foundation for the Fluent Calculus
Abstract. A new equational foundation is presented for the Fluent Calculus, an established predicate calculus formalism for reasoning about actions. We discuss limitations of the e...
Hans-Peter Störr, Michael Thielscher
KR
1998
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Combining Narratives
A theory is elaboration tolerant to the extent that new information can be incorporated with only simple changes. The simplest change is conjoining new information, and only conju...
John McCarthy, Tom Costello