Mechanizing mathematical reasoning : essays in honor of Jörg H. Siekmann on the occasion of his 60th birthday By presenting state of the art results in logical reasoning and formal methods in the context of artificial intelligence and AI applications this book commemorates the 60th birthday of Jörg H. Siekmann. The 30 revised reviewed papers are written by former and current students and colleagues of Jörg Siekmann; also included is an appraisal of the scientific career of Jörg Siekmann entitled A Portrait of a Scientist: Logics AI and Politics. The papers are organized in four parts on logic and deduction applications of logic formal methods and security and agents and planning