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Situated Nonmonotonic Temporal Reasoning with BABY-SIT

Tin, Erkan and Akman, Varol (1997) Situated Nonmonotonic Temporal Reasoning with BABY-SIT. [Journal (Paginated)]

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Abstract

After a review of situation theory and previous attempts at `computational' situation theory, we present a new programming environment, BABY-SIT, which is based on situation theory. We then demonstrate how problems requiring formal temporal reasoning can be solved in this framework. Specifically, the Yale Shooting Problem, which is commonly regarded as a canonical problem for nonmonotonic temporal reasoning, is implemented in BABY-SIT using Yoav Shoham's causal theories.

Item Type:Journal (Paginated)
Keywords:temporal reasoning, nonmonotonic reasoning, situation theory, BABY-SIT, PROSIT (programming in situation theory), ASTL (a situation theoretic language), YSP (Yale shooting problem), causal theories, KEE (knowledge engineering environment).
Subjects:Computer Science > Artificial Intelligence
Computer Science > Language
Linguistics > Computational Linguistics
Linguistics > Semantics
Philosophy > Logic
ID Code:462
Deposited By: Akman, Varol
Deposited On:16 Jun 1998
Last Modified:11 Mar 2011 08:53

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