Challenges for Action Theories / by Michael Thielscher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thielscher, Michael, author.

Contributor:

SpringerLink (Online service)

Series:

Computer Science (Springer-11645)

Lecture notes in computer science. Lecture notes in artificial intelligence ; 1775.

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence ; 1775

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Artificial intelligence.

Logic, Symbolic and mathematical.

Artificial Intelligence.

Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages.

Mathematical Logic and Foundations.

Local Subjects:

Artificial Intelligence.

Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages.

Mathematical Logic and Foundations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XIV, 146 pages).

Edition:

First edition 2000.

Contained In:

Springer eBooks

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2000.

System Details:

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Summary:

A logic-based approach to the design of computing systems would, undoubtedly, offer many advantages over the imperative paradigm most commonly applied so far for programming and hardware design and, consequently, logic, again and again, has been heralded as the basis for the next generation of computer systems. While logic and formal methods are indeed gaining ground in many areas of computer science and artificial intelligence the expected revolution has not yet happened. In this book the author offers a convincing solution to the ramification problem and qualification problem associated with the frame problem and thus contributes to a satisfactory solution of the core problem and related challenges. Thielscher bases his approach on the fluent calculus, a first-order Prolog-like formalism allowing for the description of actions and change.

Contents:

Foundations of Action Theories

The Ramification Problem

The Qualification Problem

Qualified Ramifications.

Other Format:

Printed edition:

ISBN:

978-3-540-45596-7

9783540455967

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