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Record Nr.

UNISA996465985403316

Autore

Schlechta Karl

Titolo

Nonmonotonic Logics [[electronic resource] ] : Basic Concepts, Results, and Techniques / / by Karl Schlechta

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 1997

ISBN

3-540-49736-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 1997.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (IX, 246 p.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence ; ; 1187

Disciplina

006.3

Soggetti

Artificial intelligence

Mathematical logic

Artificial Intelligence

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

Preferential structures and related logics -- Defaults as generalized quantifiers -- Logic and analysis -- Theory revision and probability -- Structured reasoning.

Sommario/riassunto

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.