Foundations of the Formal Sciences II
Foundations of the Formal Sciences II

Author: Benedikt Löwe

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-04-17

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9401703957

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"Foundations of the Formal Sciences" (FotFS) is a series of interdisciplinary conferences in mathematics, philosophy, computer science and linguistics. The main goal is to reestablish the traditionally strong links between these areas of research that have been lost in the past decades. The second conference in the series had the subtitle "Applications of Mathematical Logic in Philosophy and Linguistics" and brought speakers from all parts of the Formal Sciences together to give a holistic view of how mathematical methods can improve our philosophical and technical understanding of language and scientific discourse, ranging from the theoretical level up to applications in language recognition software. Audience: This volume is of interest to all formal philosophers and theoretical linguists. In addition to that, logicians interested in the applications of their field and logic students in mathematics, computer science, philosophy and linguistics can use the volume to broaden their knowledge of applications of logic.

Foundations of Algebraic Specification and Formal Software Development
Foundations of Algebraic Specification and Formal Software Development

Author: Donald Sannella

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-01-05

Total Pages: 594

ISBN-13: 3642173365

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This book provides foundations for software specification and formal software development from the perspective of work on algebraic specification, concentrating on developing basic concepts and studying their fundamental properties. These foundations are built on a solid mathematical basis, using elements of universal algebra, category theory and logic, and this mathematical toolbox provides a convenient language for precisely formulating the concepts involved in software specification and development. Once formally defined, these notions become subject to mathematical investigation, and this interplay between mathematics and software engineering yields results that are mathematically interesting, conceptually revealing, and practically useful. The theory presented by the authors has its origins in work on algebraic specifications that started in the early 1970s, and their treatment is comprehensive. This book contains five kinds of material: the requisite mathematical foundations; traditional algebraic specifications; elements of the theory of institutions; formal specification and development; and proof methods. While the book is self-contained, mathematical maturity and familiarity with the problems of software engineering is required; and in the examples that directly relate to programming, the authors assume acquaintance with the concepts of functional programming. The book will be of value to researchers and advanced graduate students in the areas of programming and theoretical computer science.

KI 2003: Advances in Artificial Intelligence
KI 2003: Advances in Artificial Intelligence

Author: Andreas Gu nter

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2003-09-09

Total Pages: 675

ISBN-13: 3540200592

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 26th Annual German Conference on Artificial Intelligence, KI 2003, held in Hamburg, Germany in September 2003. The 42 revised full papers presented together with 5 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 90 submissions from 22 countries. The papers are organized in topical sections on logics and ontologies, cognitive modeling, reasoning methods, machine learning, neural networks, reasoning under uncertainty, planning and constraints, spatial modeling, user modeling, and agent technology.

Toward a Formal Science of Economics
Toward a Formal Science of Economics

Author: Bernt P. Stigum

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 1068

ISBN-13: 9780262192842

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Consumer Law and Practice provides undergraduate students and those studying the LPC with concise yet comprehensive guidance. It is also a useful aid for practitioners (including those advising businesses) and non-lawyers requiring information which can be quickly understood. Using an innovative problem-solving approach to the subject, we focus on situations in which clients may find themselves and explain how the law deals with such situations. "Between the covers is a mine of information clearly and accurately set out ... a valuable tool for non-specialist and specialist alike." The Law Society's Gazette

David Makinson on Classical Methods for Non-Classical Problems
David Makinson on Classical Methods for Non-Classical Problems

Author: Sven Ove Hansson

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-12-20

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 9400777590

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The volume analyses and develops David Makinson’s efforts to make classical logic useful outside its most obvious application areas. The book contains chapters that analyse, appraise, or reshape Makinson’s work and chapters that develop themes emerging from his contributions. These are grouped into major areas to which Makinsons has made highly influential contributions and the volume in its entirety is divided into four sections, each devoted to a particular area of logic: belief change, uncertain reasoning, normative systems and the resources of classical logic. Among the contributions included in the volume, one chapter focuses on the “inferential preferential method”, i.e. the combined use of classical logic and mechanisms of preference and choice and provides examples from Makinson’s work in non-monotonic and defeasible reasoning and belief revision. One chapter offers a short autobiography by Makinson which details his discovery of modern logic, his travels across continents and reveals his intellectual encounters and inspirations. The chapter also contains an unusually explicit statement on his views on the (limited but important) role of logic in philosophy.

Linguistics and the Formal Sciences
Linguistics and the Formal Sciences

Author: Marcus Tomalin

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2006-02-16

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 1139450816

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The formal sciences, particularly mathematics, have had a profound influence on the development of linguistics. This insightful overview looks at techniques that were introduced in the fields of mathematics, logic and philosophy during the twentieth century, and explores their effect on the work of various linguists. In particular, it discusses the 'foundations crisis' that destabilised mathematics at the start of the twentieth century, the numerous related movements which sought to respond to this crisis, and how they influenced the development of syntactic theory in the 1950s. The book concludes by discussing the resulting major consequences for syntactic theory, and provides a detailed reassessment of Chomsky's early work at the advent of Generative Grammar. Informative and revealing, this book will be invaluable to all those working in formal linguistics, in particular those interested in its history and development.

Logic and the Modalities in the Twentieth Century
Logic and the Modalities in the Twentieth Century

Author: Dov M. Gabbay

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2006-05-10

Total Pages: 733

ISBN-13: 0080463037

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Logic and the Modalities in the Twentieth Century is an indispensable research tool for anyone interested in the development of logic, including researchers, graduate and senior undergraduate students in logic, history of logic, mathematics, history of mathematics, computer science and artificial intelligence, linguistics, cognitive science, argumentation theory, philosophy, and the history of ideas.This volume is number seven in the eleven volume Handbook of the History of Logic. It concentrates on the development of modal logic in the 20th century, one of the most important undertakings in logic's long history. Written by the leading researchers and scholars in the field, the volume explores the logics of necessity and possibility, knowledge and belief, obligation and permission, time, tense and change, relevance, and more. Both this volume and the Handbook as a whole are definitive reference tools for students and researchers in the history of logic, the history of philosophy, and any discipline, such as mathematics, computer science, artificial intelligence, for whom the historical background of his or her work is a salient consideration.· Detailed and comprehensive chapters covering the entire range of modal logic.· Contains the latest scholarly discoveries and interpretative insights that answer many questions in the field of logic.

Formal Foundations for Software Engineering Methods
Formal Foundations for Software Engineering Methods

Author: Heinrich Hußmann

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 1997-09-23

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9783540636137

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In this book, Hussmann builds a bridge between the pragmatic methods for the design of information systems and the formal, mathematical background. Firstly, the principal feasibility of an integration of the different methods is demonstrated. Secondly, the formalism is used as a systematic semantic analysis of the concepts in SSADM, a British standard structured software engineering method. Thirdly, a way of obtaining a hybrid formal-pragmatic specification using a combination of SSADM notations and formal (SPECTRUM) specifications is shown. This well-written book encourages scientists and software engineers to apply formal methods to practical software development problems.

Foundations of Computer Science
Foundations of Computer Science

Author: Wilfried Brauer

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 1997-10-24

Total Pages: 536

ISBN-13: 9783540637462

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Content Description #Dedicated to Wilfried Brauer.#Includes bibliographical references and index.