A Logical Theory of Nonmonotonic Inference and Belief Change by Alexander Bochman

By Alexander Bochman

this can be the 1st booklet that integrates nonmonotonic reasoning and trust turn out to be a unmarried framework from a man-made intelligence common sense point-of-view. The method of either those matters relies on a robust idea of an epistemic country that subsumes either latest types for nonmonotonic inference and present versions for trust switch. Many effects and buildings within the publication are thoroughly new and feature no longer seemed prior within the literature.

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