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Record Nr.

UNISA996465296703316

Autore

Alferes Jose Julio

Titolo

Reasoning with Logic Programming [[electronic resource] /] / by Jose Julio Alferes, Luis Moniz Pereira

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 1996

ISBN

3-540-68674-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 1996.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XXIV, 336 p.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence ; ; 1111

Disciplina

006.3/3

Soggetti

Architecture, Computer

Programming languages (Electronic computers)

Artificial intelligence

Computer programming

Computer logic

Mathematical logic

Computer System Implementation

Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters

Artificial Intelligence

Programming Techniques

Logics and Meanings of Programs

Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Normal logic programs -- Extended logic programs -- Why a new semantics for extended programs? -- WFSX — A well founded semantics for extended logic programs -- WFSX, LP semantics with two negations, and autoepistemic logics -- WFSX and default logic -- WFSX and hypotheses abduction -- Dealing with contradiction -- Further properties and comparisons -- Top-down derivation procedures for WFSX -- Application to classical nonmonotonic reasoning problems -- Application to diagnosis and debugging.

Sommario/riassunto

As the first monograph in the field, this state-of-the-art survey provides a rigorous presentation of logic programs as representational



and reasoning tools. The authors used this book successfully as a text for a MSc course. The use of logic programming for various types of reasoning, particularly for nonmonotonic reasoning, is thoroughly investigated and illustrated and a variety of knowledge representation formalisms, like default negation, integrity constraints, default rules, etc., are treated in depth. Besides the main text, detailed introductory background and motivational information is included together with a bibliography listing 215 entries as well as the listing of the Prolog interpreter used in the text for running numerous examples.