Dynamic Worlds
From the Frame Problem to Knowledge Management
Published on 31. March 1999
Book
Hardback
XI, 283 pages
978-0-7923-5535-9 (ISBN)
Description
Reasoning is an integral part of intelligent systems in fields like databases, logic programming, robotics, knowledge engineering, human/computer interfaces, programming environments, etc. In reality any such system has to cope with a changing world and its dynamics. Hence it is of great importance that reasoning must account for coping with change in order to be truly useful in practice.
The book comprises several contributions to current ways of approaching this problem. On the one hand it surveys and synthesizes recent research work, while on the other hand new research results are included. Among the topics treated are logics for reasoning about actions and planning, belief revision and the reconciliation of logically conflicting inputs, resolving of conflicts by merging of knowledge and issues in the evolution in object-oriented databases.
The book is aimed at the researcher and advanced student active in this field.
The book comprises several contributions to current ways of approaching this problem. On the one hand it surveys and synthesizes recent research work, while on the other hand new research results are included. Among the topics treated are logics for reasoning about actions and planning, belief revision and the reconciliation of logically conflicting inputs, resolving of conflicts by merging of knowledge and issues in the evolution in object-oriented databases.
The book is aimed at the researcher and advanced student active in this field.
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Series
Edition
1999 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Dordrecht
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
XI, 283 p.
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
617 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7923-5535-9 (9780792355359)
DOI
10.1007/978-94-017-1317-7
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12/2010
Springer
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Content
Action and Change in Rewriting Logic.- Heterogeneous Systems for Modeling Dynamic Worlds.- Reasoning about Actual and Hypothetical Occurrences of Concurrent and Non-Deterministic Actions.- Compromise Update and Revision: A Position Paper.- A Compromise Revision Model for Reconciling Updates.- Knowledge Base Merging by Majority.- Object Evolution in Object Databases.- Making Knowledge-Based Systems more Manageable: A Hybrid Integration Approach to Knowledge about Actions and their Legality.