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Nonmonotonic logics : basic concepts, results, and techniques

Title: Nonmonotonic logics : basic concepts, results, and techniques / Karl Schlechta.
Author: Schlechta, Karl.
Publication: Berlin ; New York : Springer, ©1997.

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Description

ix, 243 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

Nonmonotonic logics were created as an abstraction of some types of common sense reasoning, analogous to the way classical logic serves to formalize ideal reasoning about mathematical objects. These logics are nonmonotonic in the sense that enlarging the set of axioms does not necessarily imply an enlargement of the set of formulas deducible from these axioms. Such situations arise naturally, for example, in the use of information of different degrees of reliability. This book emphasizes basic concepts by outlining connections between different formalisms of nonmonotonic logic, and gives a coherent presentation of recent research results and reasoning techniques. It provides a self-contained state-of-the-art survey of the area addressing researchers in AI lo.

Series Statement

Lecture notes in computer science ; 1187. Lecture notes in artificial intelligence

Uniform Title

Lecture notes in computer science ; 1187.
Lecture notes in computer science. Lecture notes in artificial intelligence

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-243).

Contents

1. Introduction -- 2. Preferential structures and related logics -- 3. Defaults as generalized quantifiers -- 4. Logic and analysis -- 5. Theory revision and probability -- 6. Structured reasoning.

ISBN

3540624821
9783540624820

LCCN

96030059

OCLC

ocm36130643
36130643
SCSB-9151399

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library