Nonmonotonic Reasoning(English, Hardcover, Antoniou Grigoris)

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Nonmonotonic Reasoning(English, Hardcover, Antoniou Grigoris) is written by Antoniou Grigoris and published by MIT Press Ltd. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0262011573 (ISBN 10) and 9780262011570 (ISBN 13).

Nonmonotonic reasoning provides formal methods that enable intelligent systems to operate adequately when faced with incomplete or changing information. In particular, it provides rigorous mechanisms for taking back conclusions that, in the presence of new information, turn out to be wrong and for deriving new, alternative conclusions instead. Nonmonotonic reasoning methods provide rigor similar to that of classical reasoning; they form a base for validation and verification and therefore increase confidence in intelligent systems that work with incomplete and changing information. Following a brief introduction to the concepts of predicate logic that are needed in the subsequent chapters, this book presents an in depth treatment of default logic. Other subjects covered include the major approaches of autoepistemic logic and circumscription, belief revision and its relationship to nonmonotonic inference, and briefly, the stable and well-founded semantics of logic programs.