Nonmonotonic Reasoning: An Overview: 73 (Center for the Study of Language and Information Publication Lecture Notes) - Softcover

Brewka, Gerhard; Dix, Jürgen; Konolige, Kurt

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1881526836 ISBN 13: 9781881526834

Publisher: The Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications, 1996

Synopsis

Nonmonotonic reasoning in its broadest sense is reasoning to conclusions on the basis of incomplete information. Given more information, previously drawn inferences may be retracted. Commonsense reasoning has a nonmonotonic component; it has been argued that almost all commonsense inferences are of this sort. From the end of the 1980s to the present there has been an explosion in research in nonmonotonic reasoning. It is now possible to understand more clearly the properties of the major formalisms from a metatheoretical point of view, the relationships among the formalisms and their connection to independently developed proof methods. The goal of this monograph is to make this understanding more accessible.

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"A concise guie to the major formalisms of a form of reasoning that uses incomplete information to reach a conclusion that is subject to change with the acquisition of more information." Reference and Research News

Edition details

• Publisher: The Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 1881526836
• ISBN 13: 9781881526834
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 189