Gerhard Brewka - Böcker

In this 1991 book the author gives a broad overview of different areas of research in nonmonotonic reasoning, and presents some results and ideas based on his research. The guiding principles are: clarification of the different research activities in the area, which have sometimes been undertaken independently of each other, and appreciation of the fact that these research activities often represent different means to the same ends, namely sound theoretical foundations and efficient computation. The book begins with a discussion of the various types of nonmonotonic reasoning, their applications and their logics. Theorem proving techniques for these logics are also described. There then follow chapters dealing with formulations of nonmonotonic inheritance, and nonmonotonic reasoning based on nonmonotonic rules. The final chapter discusses the achievements in the field in the light of the famous Yale shooting example. The book will be welcomed by researchers in theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence.

In this 1991 book the author gives a broad overview of different areas of research in nonmonotonic reasoning, and presents some results and ideas based on his research. The guiding principles are: clarification of the different research activities in the area, which have sometimes been undertaken independently of each other, and appreciation of the fact that these research activities often represent different means to the same ends, namely sound theoretical foundations and efficient computation. The book begins with a discussion of the various types of nonmonotonic reasoning, their applications and their logics. Theorem proving techniques for these logics are also described. There then follow chapters dealing with formulations of nonmonotonic inheritance, and nonmonotonic reasoning based on nonmonotonic rules. The final chapter discusses the achievements in the field in the light of the famous Yale shooting example. The book will be welcomed by researchers in theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence.

Logics have, for many years, laid claim to providing a formal basis for the study of arti?cial intelligence. With the depth and maturity of methodologies, formalisms, procedures, implementations, and their applications available today, this claim is stronger than ever, as witnessed by increasing amount and range of publications in the area, to which the present proceedings accrue. The European series of Workshops on Logics in Arti?cial Intelligence (or Journ'ees Europ'eennes sur la Logique en Intelligence Arti?cielle - JELIA) began in response to the need for a European forum for the discussion of emerging work in this burgeoning ?eld. JELIA 2000 is the seventh such workshop in the series, following the ones held in Rosco?, France (1988); Amsterdam, Netherlands ' (1990); Berlin, Germany (1992); York, U.K. (1994); Evora, Portugal (1996); and Dagstuhl, Germany (1998). JELIA 2000 will take place in M' alaga, Spain, from 29 September to 2 - tober 2000. The workshop is organized and hosted by the Research Group of Mathematics Applied to Computing of the Department of Applied Mathematics of the University of Mal ' aga.As in previous workshops, the aim is to bring together researchers involved in all aspects of logic in arti?cial intelligence. Additional sponsorship was provided by the ESPRIT NOE Compulog-Net.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Joint German/Austrian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, KI 2001, held in Vienna, Austria in September 2001. The 29 revised full technical papers presented together with one invited paper and four posters of industrial papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 79 submissions. All current aspects in AI are addressed, ranging from theoretical and foundational issues to industrial applications.

This proceedings volume contains a selection of revised andextended papers presented at the Second InternationalWorkshop on Nonmonotonic and InductiveLogic, NIL '91, whichtook place at Reinhardsbrunn Castle, December 2-6, 1991. The volume opens with an extended version of a tutorial onnonmonotonic logic by G. Brewka, J. Dix, and K. Konolige. Fifteen selected papers follow, on a variety of topics. Themajority of papers belong either to the area of nonmonotonicreasoning or to the field of inductive inference, butsome papers integrate research from both areas. The first workshop in this series was held at the Universityof Karlsruhe in December 1990 and its proceedings werepublished as Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Volume543. The series of workshops was made possible by financialsupport from Volkswagen Stiftung, Hannover. This workshopwas also supported by IBM Deutschland GmbH and Siemens AG.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st Annual German Conference on Artificial Intelligence, KI-97, held in Freiburg, Germany, in September 1997.The volume presents revised versions of 26 full papers and 10 posters selected from around 70 submissions from more than 15 countries. Also included are three excellent invited contributions by Anthony G. Cohn, Kurt Konolige, and Pat Langley. The papers are organized in topical sections on theorem proving, nonclassical logics, knowledge representation, spatial reasoning, computational linguistics, computer perception and neural nets, and on planning, diagnosis and search.