Logical tools for handling change in agent-based systems
Dov Gabbay,
Karl Schlechta
Abstract:The human agent in his daily activity has to deal with many situations involving change. Chief among them are the following (1) Common sense reasoning from available data. This involves predication of what unavailable data is supposed to be (nonmonotonic deduction) but it is a defeasible prediction, geared towards immediate change. This is formally known as nonmonotonic reasoning and is studied by the nonmonotonic community.(2) Belief revision, studied by a very large community. The agent is unhappy with the t… Show more
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