Nonmonotonic logics
Subtitle: basic concepts, results, and techniques
By: Karl Schlechta.
Series: Lecture notes in computer science ;; 1187.; Lecture notes in artificial intelligence; Lecture notes in computer science ;; 1187.; Lecture notes in computer science.
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
Subjects: Default reasoning; Logic; Artificial intelligence; Nonmonotonic reasoning
Description: 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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-243).