Logical Tools for Handling Change in Agent-Based Systems

• Main Authors: Gabbay, Dov M. (Author), Schlechta, Karl (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.
• Series: Cognitive Technologies,
• Subjects: Computer science.; Logic.; Computers.; Mathematical logic.; Artificial intelligence.; Mathematics.; Computer Science.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Mathematics, general.; Theory of Computation.; Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages.; Mathematical Logic and Foundations.

Agents act on the basis of their beliefs and these beliefs change as they interact with other agents. In this book the authors propose and explain general logical tools for handling change. These tools include preferential reasoning, theory revision, and reasoning in inheritance systems, and the aut...

Table of Contents:

• and Motivation
• Basic Definitions and Results
• Abstract Semantics by Size
• Preferential Structures #x2013; Part I
• Preferential Structures #x2013; Part II
• Higher Preferential Structures
• Deontic Logic and Hierarchical Conditionals
• Theory Update and Theory Revision
• An Analysis of Defeasible Inheritance Systems.