Nonmonotonic Logics Basic Concepts, Results, and Techniques

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 e...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schlechta, Karl
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 1997, 1997
Edition:1st ed. 1997
Series:Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Preferential structures and related logics
  • Defaults as generalized quantifiers
  • Logic and analysis
  • Theory revision and probability
  • Structured reasoning