Logic Programs, Norms and Action
Logic Programs, Norms and Action

Author: Alexander Artikis

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2012-04-25

Total Pages: 444

ISBN-13: 3642294146

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This book is dedicated to Marek Sergot, Professor in Computational Logic at Imperial College London, on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Professor Sergot’s scientific contributions range over many different fields. He has developed a series of novel ideas and formal methods bridging areas including artificial intelligence, computational logic, philosophical logic, legal theory, artificial intelligence and law, multi-agent systems and bioinformatics. By combining his background in logic and computing with his interest in the law, deontic logic, action, and related areas, and applying to all his capacity to understand the subtleties of social interaction and normative reasoning, Professor Sergot has opened up new directions of research, and has been a reference, an inspiration, and a model for many researchers in the fields to which he has contributed. The Festschrift includes several reminiscences and introductory essays describing Professor Sergot's achievements, followed by a series of articles on logic programming, temporal reasoning and action languages, artificial intelligence and law, deontic logic and norm-governed systems, and logical approaches to policies.

Action Programming Languages
Action Programming Languages

Author: Michael Hexmoor

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-05-31

Total Pages: 91

ISBN-13: 3031015479

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Artificial systems that think and behave intelligently are one of the most exciting and challenging goals of Artificial Intelligence. Action Programming is the art and science of devising high-level control strategies for autonomous systems which employ a mental model of their environment and which reason about their actions as a means to achieve their goals. Applications of this programming paradigm include autonomous software agents, mobile robots with high-level reasoning capabilities, and General Game Playing. These lecture notes give an in-depth introduction to the current state-of-the-art in action programming. The main topics are knowledge representation for actions, procedural action programming, planning, agent logic programs, and reactive, behavior-based agents. The only prerequisite for understanding the material in these lecture notes is some general programming experience and basic knowledge of classical first-order logic. Table of Contents: Introduction / Mathematical Preliminaries / Procedural Action Programs / Action Programs and Planning / Declarative Action Programs / Reactive Action Programs / Suggested Further Reading

Knowledge in Action
Knowledge in Action

Author: Raymond Reiter

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2001-07-27

Total Pages: 462

ISBN-13: 9780262264310

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Specifying and implementing dynamical systems with the situation calculus. Modeling and implementing dynamical systems is a central problem in artificial intelligence, robotics, software agents, simulation, decision and control theory, and many other disciplines. In recent years, a new approach to representing such systems, grounded in mathematical logic, has been developed within the AI knowledge-representation community. This book presents a comprehensive treatment of these ideas, basing its theoretical and implementation foundations on the situation calculus, a dialect of first-order logic. Within this framework, it develops many features of dynamical systems modeling, including time, processes, concurrency, exogenous events, reactivity, sensing and knowledge, probabilistic uncertainty, and decision theory. It also describes and implements a new family of high-level programming languages suitable for writing control programs for dynamical systems. Finally, it includes situation calculus specifications for a wide range of examples drawn from cognitive robotics, planning, simulation, databases, and decision theory, together with all the implementation code for these examples. This code is available on the book's Web site.

Action Inquiry
Action Inquiry

Author: William R. Torbert

Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Published: 2004-06-13

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 157675264X

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oAction inquiryo is a fresh approach to learning leadership in the midst of action. This highly accessible process takes each of us beyond muddling through daily dilemmas to exercising transforming power at key moments and more timely action in general. Bill Torbert and Associates lead you through more and more sophisticated oaction-logicso-strategies for analyzing the world and reacting to it-until you are able to practice action inquiry continually. Speaking to everyone from new managers to CEOs to world leaders, real-life stories of leadership and organizational transformations show how action inquiry increases personal integrity, relational mutuality, company profitability, and long-term organizational and environmental sustainability.

Logic Programming
Logic Programming

Author: David S. Warren

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 884

ISBN-13: 9780262731058

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The Tenth International Conference on Logic Programming, sponsored by the Association for Logic Programming, is a major forum for presentations of research, applications, and implementations in this important area of computer science. Logic programming is one of the most promising steps toward declarative programming and forms the theoretical basis of the programming language Prolog and it svarious extensions. Logic programming is also fundamental to work in artificial intelligence, where it has been used for nonmonotonic and commonsense reasoning, expert systems implementation, deductive databases, and applications such as computer-aided manufacturing.David S. Warren is Professor of Computer Science at the State University of New York, Stony Brook.Topics covered: Theory and Foundations. Programming Methodologies and Tools. Meta and Higher-order Programming. Parallelism. Concurrency. Deductive Databases. Implementations and Architectures. Applications. Artificial Intelligence. Constraints. Partial Deduction. Bottom-Up Evaluation. Compilation Techniques.

Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning
Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning

Author: Vladimir Lifschitz

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2004-02-12

Total Pages: 375

ISBN-13: 354020721X

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning, LPNMR 2004, held in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA in January 2004. The 24 revised full papers presented together with 8 system descriptions were carefully reviewed and selected for presentation. Among the topics addressed are declarative logic programming, nonmonotonic reasoning, knowledge representation, combinatorial search, answer set programming, constraint programming, deduction in ontologies, and planning.

Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning
Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning

Author: Thomas Eiter

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2003-08-06

Total Pages: 460

ISBN-13: 3540454020

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning, LPNMR 2001, held in Vienna, Austria in September 2001. The 22 revised full papers and eleven system descriptions presented with five invited papers were carefully reviewed and rigorously selected. Among the topics addressed are computational logic, declarative information extraction, model checking, inductive logic programming, default theories, stable logic programming, program semantics, incomplete information processing, concept learning, declarative specification, Prolog programming, many-valued logics, etc.

A 25-Year Perspective on Logic Programming
A 25-Year Perspective on Logic Programming

Author: Agostino Dovier

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2010-06-26

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 3642143091

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This book celebratesthe 25th anniversaryof GULP—the Italian Associationfor LogicProgramming.Authored by Italian researchersat the leading edge of their ?elds, it presents an up-to-date survey of a broad collection of topics in logic programming, making it a useful reference for both researchers and students. During its 25-year existence, GULP has organised a wide range of national and international activities, including both conferences and summer schools. It has been especially active in supporting and encouraging young researchers, by providing scholarships for GULP events and awarding distinguished disser- tions. WeintheinternationallogicprogrammingcommunitylookuponGULPwith a combination of envy, admiration and gratitude. We are pleased to attend its conferences and summer schools, where we can learn about scienti?c advances, catch up with old friends and meet young students. It is an honour for me to acknowledge our appreciation to GULP for its outstanding contributions to our ?eld and to express our best wishes for its continuing prosperity in the future. March 2010 Robert Kowalski Imperial College London Preface On June 18, 1985, a group of pioneering researchers, including representatives from industry, national research labs, and academia, attended the constituent assembly of the Group of researchers and Users of Logic Programming (GULP) association. That was the starting point of a long adventure in science, that 1 we are still experiencing 25 years later. This volume celebrates this important event.

Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems
Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems

Author: João Leite

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2005-07-20

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 354028060X

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This book constitutes the strictly refereed post-proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Computational Logic for Multi-Agent Systems, CLIMA V, held in Lisbon, Portugal, in September 2004 as a joint event in federation with the Ninth European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence (JELIA’04) to promote the CLIMA research topics in the broader community of logics in AI. The 16 revised full papers presented were carefully selected from 35 submissions and are devoted to techniques from computational logic for representing, programming, and reasoning about multi-agent systems. The papers are organized in topical sections on foundations, architectures, interaction, and planning and applications.

Logic Based Program Synthesis and Transformation
Logic Based Program Synthesis and Transformation

Author: Patricia M. Hill

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2006-03-01

Total Pages: 187

ISBN-13: 3540326561

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 15th International Symposium on Logic Based Program Synthesis and Transformation, LOPSTR 2005, held in September 2005. The 10 revised full papers presented together with one invited talk were carefully selected and revised from 33 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on tools for program development, program transformations, and software development and program analysis.