Reasoning is an integral part of intelligent systems in fields like databases, logic programming, robotics, knowledge engineering, human/computer interfaces, programming environments, etc. In reality any such system has to cope with a changing world and its dynamics. Hence it is of great importance that reasoning must account for coping with change in order to be truly useful in practice.
The book comprises several contributions to current ways of approaching this problem. On the one hand it surveys and synthesizes recent research work, while on the other hand new research results are included. Among the topics treated are logics for reasoning about actions and planning, belief revision and the reconciliation of logically conflicting inputs, resolving of conflicts by merging of knowledge and issues in the evolution in object-oriented databases.
The book is aimed at the researcher and advanced student active in this field.
Author(s): Narciso Martí-Oliet, José Meseguer (auth.), Remo Pareschi, Bertram Fronhöfer (eds.)
Series: Applied Logic Series 12
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Year: 1999
Language: English
Pages: 283
Tags: Logic; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Data Structures, Cryptology and Information Theory
Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Action and Change in Rewriting Logic....Pages 1-53
Heterogeneous Systems for Modeling Dynamic Worlds....Pages 55-72
Reasoning about Actual and Hypothetical Occurrences of Concurrent and Non-Deterministic Actions....Pages 73-109
Compromise Update and Revision: A Position Paper....Pages 111-148
A Compromise Revision Model for Reconciling Updates....Pages 149-194
Knowledge Base Merging by Majority....Pages 195-218
Object Evolution in Object Databases....Pages 219-246
Making Knowledge-Based Systems More Manageable: A Hybrid Integration Approach to Knowledge about Actions and their Legality....Pages 247-282
Back Matter....Pages 283-283
