
Coherent Systems: Volume 2
Karl Schlechta(Author)
Elsevier (Publisher)
Published on 21. September 2004
Book
Hardback
468 pages
978-0-444-51789-0 (ISBN)
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Description
One aspect of common sense reasoning is reasoning about normal cases, e.g. a physician will first try to interpret symptoms by a common disease, and will take more exotic possibilities only later into account. Such "normality" can be encoded, e.g. by a relation, where case A is considered more normal than case B. This gives a standard semantics or interpretation to nonmonotonic reasoning (a branch of common sense reasoning), or, more formally, to nonmonotonic logics. We consider in this book the repercussions such normality relations and similar constructions have on the resulting nonmonotonic logics, i.e. which types of logic are adequate for which kind of relation, etc.
We show in this book that some semantics correspond nicely to some logics, but also that other semantics do not correspond to any logics of the usual form.
We show in this book that some semantics correspond nicely to some logics, but also that other semantics do not correspond to any logics of the usual form.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Elsevier Science & Technology
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Libraries and researchers in nonmonotonic and related logics
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Laminated cover
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
780 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-444-51789-0 (9780444517890)
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K. Schlechta
Universite de Provence and Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale (CNRS UMR 6166), Marseille, France
Universite de Provence and Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale (CNRS UMR 6166), Marseille, France
Content
CHAPTER 1 : INTRODUCTIONCHAPTER 2 : CONCEPTSCHAPTER 3 : PREFERENCESCHAPTER 4 : DISTANCESCHAPTER 5 : DEFINABILITY PRESERVATIONCHAPTER 6 : SUMSCHAPTER 7 : SIZECHAPTER 8 : INTEGRATIONCHAPTER 9 : CONCLUSION AND OUTLOOK