Conditionals, Information, and Inference International Workshop, WCII 2002, Hagen, Germany, May 13-15, 2002, Revised Selected Papers /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kern-Isberner, Gabriele (Editor), Rödder, Wilhelm (Editor), Kulmann, Friedhelm (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2005.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 3301
• Subjects: Computer science.; Mathematical logic.; Artificial intelligence.; Computer Science.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages.

Conditionals are fascinating and versatile objects of knowledge representation. On the one hand, they may express rules in a very general sense, representing, for example, plausible relationships, physical laws, and social norms. On the other hand, as default rules or general implications, they cons...

Table of Contents:

• Invited Papers
• What Is at Stake in the Controversy over Conditionals
• Reflections on Logic and Probability in the Context of Conditionals
• Acceptance, Conditionals, and Belief Revision
• Regular Papers
• Getting the Point of Conditionals: An Argumentative Approach to the Psychological Interpretation of Conditional Premises
• Projective Default Epistemology
• On the Logic of Iterated Non-prioritised Revision
• Assertions, Conditionals, and Defaults
• A Maple Package for Conditional Event Algebras
• Conditional Independences in Gaussian Vectors and Rings of Polynomials
• Looking at Probabilistic Conditionals from an Institutional Point of View
• There Is a Reason for Everything (Probably): On the Application of Maxent to Induction
• Completing Incomplete Bayesian Networks.