This volume represents the proceedings of the Third International Conference on Situation Theory and its Applications, held at Oiso, Japan, in November of 1991. The Program Committee of the Conference consisted of the editors of this volume. Many people helped make the conference and this volume a success, too many to name here. Three deserve special mention, however: Shuji Doshita, Hideyuki Nakashima, and Syun Tutiya, who constituted the organizing committee.
The conference was supported by contributions from the Center for the Study of Language and Information at Stanford University and the New Models of Software Architecture Project of the Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry.
This contents of this volume do not coincide exactly with the presentations at the meeting; in particular, some papers given at the conference do not appear here for one reason or another.
This volume is organized along the same lines as its two predecessors, Situation Theory and its Applications, Volumes 1 and 2. We hope that this volume is a worthy successor to those predecessors and that readers of the volume will both profit from it and be inspired to contribute to the further development of the subject.
Author(s): Peter Aczel, David Israel, Yasuhiro Katagiri, Stanley Peters (eds.)
Series: Center for the Study of Language and Information - CSLI Lecture Notes 37
Publisher: CSLI Publications
Year: 1993
Language: English
Pages: 416
Situation Theory and Its Applications. Volume 3 [SCLI Lecture Notes, No. 37] (1993) ......Page 1
Table of contents ......Page 5
Contributors ......Page 7
Preface ......Page 10
Part I. Situation theory ......Page 11
1. Constraints, channels, and the flow of information (Jon Barwise) ......Page 12
2. Extended Kamp notation: a graphical notation for situation theory (Jon Barwise and Robin Cooper) ......Page 37
3. States of affairs without parameters (Mark Crimmins) ......Page 63
Part II. Logical applications ......Page 95
4. Labelled deductive systems and situation theory (Dov M. Gabbay) ......Page 97
5. Events and processes in situation semantics (Michael Georgeff, David Morley, and Anand Rao) ......Page 127
6. Nonmonotonic projection, Causation, and induction (Robert C. Koons) ......Page 149
7. Modal situation theory (Stephen M. Schulz) ......Page 171
Part III. Linguistic applications ......Page 197
8. Generalized quantifiers and resource situations (Robin Cooper) ......Page 199
9. Situation theory and cooperative action (Keith Devlin and Duska Rosenberg) ......Page 221
10. Propositional and non-propositional attitudes (Jonathan Ginzburg) ......Page 273
11. Episodic logic: a situational logic for natural language processing (Chung Hee Hwang and Lenhart K. Schubert) ......Page 311
12. A situation-theoretic formalization of definite description interpretation in plan elaboration dialogues (Massimo Poesio) ......Page 347
13. A situation-theoretic representation of text meaning: anaphora, quantification, and negation (Dag Westerstähl, Björn Haglund, and Torbjörn Lager) ......Page 383
Name index ......Page 417
Subject index ......Page 419
CSLI Publications ......Page 425
