Foundations of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning

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Gerhard Lakemeyer, Bernhard Nebel
Springer Science & Business Media, Jun 28, 1994 - Computers - 355 pages
This collection of thoroughly refereed papers presents state-of-the-art research results by well-known researchers on the foundations of knowledge representation and reasoning. In addition, there are two surveys, one by the volume editors intended as a guide to this book and another by Shoham and Cousins on mental attitudes.
In total, the volume provides a well-organized report on current research in knowledge representation, which is one of the central subfields of AI. Except the surveys, the papers grew out of a workshop on Theoretical Foundations of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, held in conjunction with the 10th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-92) in Vienna in August 1992.
 

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Foundations of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
1
Collective Entities and Relations in Concept Languages
13
Computing Extensions of Terminological Default Theories
30
A Formalization of Intervalbased Temporal Subsumption in First Order Logic
53
Normative Subjunctive and Autoepistemic Defaults
74
Abductive Reasoning with Abstraction Axioms
98
Queries Rules and Definitions as Epistemic Sentences in Concept Languages
113
The Power of Beliefs or Translating Default Logic Into Standard Autoepistemic Logic
133
Weak Autoepistemic Reasoning and WellFounded Semantics
179
Forming Concepts for Fast Inference
200
A CommonSense Theory of Time
216
Reasoning with Analogical Representations
229
Asking About Possibilities Revision and Update Semantics for Subjunctive Queries
250
On the Impact of Stratification on the Complexity of Nonmonotonic Reasoning
275
Logics of Mental Attitudes in AI
296
Monotonic reasoning about nested default conditionals
310

Learning an Optimally Accurate Representation System
145
Default Reasoning via Negation as Failure
160
Revision by Expansion in Logic Programs
333
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