Bertram Fronhöfer – författare

Reasoning is an integral part of intelligent systems in fields like databases, logic programming, robotics, knowledge engineering, human/computer interfaces, programming environments, etc. In reality any such system has to cope with a changing world and its dynamics. Hence it is of great importance that reasoning must account for coping with change in order to be truly useful in practice. The book comprises several contributions to current ways of approaching this problem. On the one hand it surveys and synthesizes recent research work, while on the other hand new research results are included. Among the topics treated are logics for reasoning about actions and planning, belief revision and the reconciliation of logically conflicting inputs, resolving of conflicts by merging of knowledge and issues in the evolution in object-oriented databases. The book is aimed at the researcher and advanced student active in this field.

This volume contains the proceedings of an internationalworkshop on parallelism in inference systems held in Germanyin December 1990. The topicof the workshop is still ratheryoung and several papers in the book are overview articlesintended to provide a first orientation toward some of themore intensively investigated subtopics.The main part of the book is a compilation of researchpapers on parallelization in special domains ofinferencesuch as rewriting, automatic reasoning, logic programming,andconnectionist inference. Appended to the book is acollection of short project summaries received in responseto a worldwide email call.The book is intended primarily for researchers working oninference systems who are interested in parallelizing theirsystems.