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KR
1994
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
Toward a Logic for Qualitative Decision Theory
We present a logic for representing and reasoning with qualitative statements of preference and normality and describe how these may interact in decision making under uncertainty....
Craig Boutilier
AAAI
2008
13 years 10 months ago
On the Progression of Situation Calculus Basic Action Theories: Resolving a 10-year-old Conjecture
In a seminal paper, Lin and Reiter introduced a modeltheoretic definition for the progression of the initial knowledge base of a basic action theory. This definition comes with a ...
Stavros Vassos, Hector J. Levesque
IJCAI
1997
13 years 9 months ago
Change, Change, Change: Three Approaches
We consider the frame problem, that is, char­ acterizing the assumption that properties tend to persist over time. We show that there are at least three distinct assumptions that...
Tom Costello
IJIS
2010
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13 years 5 months ago
The ramification problem in temporal databases: Concurrent execution
In this paper we study the ramification problem in the setting of temporal databases. Standard solutions from the literature on reasoning about action are inadequate because they ...
Nikos Papadakis, Dimitris Plexousakis, Grigoris An...
FLAIRS
2008
13 years 10 months ago
Causal Reasoning with Contexts Using Dependent Types
In Artificial Intelligence, a crucial requirement is the ability to reason about actions and their effects on the environment. Traditional approaches which rely on classical logic...
Richard Dapoigny, Patrick Barlatier