Agents act on the basis of their beliefs and these beliefs change as they interact with other agents. In this book the authors propose and explain general logical tools for handling change. These tools include preferential reasoning, theory revision, and reasoning in inheritance systems, and the authors use these tools to examine nonmonotonic logic, deontic logic, counterfactuals, modal logic, intuitionistic logic, and temporal logic.
This book will be of benefit to researchers engaged with artificial intelligence, and in particular agents, multiagent systems and nonmonotonic logic.
Author(s): Dov M. Gabbay, Karl Schlechta (auth.)
Series: Cognitive Technologies
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2010
Language: English
Pages: 305
Tags: Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages; Mathematical Logic and Foundations; Logic
Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction and Motivation....Pages 1-30
Basic Definitions and Results....Pages 31-51
Abstract Semantics by Size....Pages 53-71
Preferential Structures – Part I....Pages 73-117
Preferential Structures – Part II....Pages 119-155
Higher Preferential Structures....Pages 157-173
Deontic Logic and Hierarchical Conditionals....Pages 175-217
Theory Update and Theory Revision....Pages 219-250
An Analysis of Defeasible Inheritance Systems....Pages 251-293
Back Matter....Pages 1-11
