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Advances in Knowledge Representation, Logic Programming, and Abstract Argumentation

Essays Dedicated to Gerhard Brewka on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday

  • Features recent explorations in the field of artificial intelligence
  • Honors Gerhard Brewka for his pioneering research ideas and fruitful collaborations in that area
  • Holds high-quality, selected papers and state of the art contents, complemented by a summary of Gerd's contributions

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 9060)

Part of the book sub series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI)

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Table of contents (24 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

  2. Prologue

    1. A Glimpse on Gerhard Brewka’s Contributions to Artificial Intelligence

      • Thomas Eiter, Hannes Strass, Mirosław Truszczyński, Stefan Woltran
      Pages 1-16
  3. Actions and Agents

    1. Ricochet Robots Reloaded: A Case-Study in Multi-shot ASP Solving

      • Martin Gebser, Roland Kaminski, Philipp Obermeier, Torsten Schaub
      Pages 17-32
    2. From Testing Agent Systems to a Scalable Simulation Platform

      • Tobias Ahlbrecht, Jürgen Dix, Federico Schlesinger
      Pages 47-62
  4. Nonmonotonic and Human Reasoning

    1. Deontic Logic for Human Reasoning

      • Ulrich Furbach, Claudia Schon
      Pages 63-80
    2. A System Z-like Approach for First-Order Default Reasoning

      • Gabriele Kern-Isberner, Christoph Beierle
      Pages 81-95
    3. Cumulativity Tailored for Nonmonotonic Reasoning

      • Tomi Janhunen, Ilkka Niemelä
      Pages 96-111
    4. Decidability of Circumscribed Description Logics Revisited

      • Piero Bonatti, Marco Faella, Carsten Lutz, Luigi Sauro, Frank Wolter
      Pages 112-124
    5. Stability, Supportedness, Minimality and Kleene Answer Set Programs

      • Patrick Doherty, Andrzej Szałas
      Pages 125-140
    6. Asynchronous Multi-Context Systems

      • Stefan Ellmauthaler, Jörg Pührer
      Pages 141-156
  5. Preferences

    1. Twenty-Five Years of Preferred Subtheories

      • Jérôme Lang
      Pages 157-172
    2. A Non-monotonic Goal Specification Language for Planning with Preferences

      • Tran Cao Son, Enrico Pontelli, Chitta Baral
      Pages 202-217
    3. Explaining Preferences and Preferring Explanations

      • Pedro Cabalar, Jorge Fandiño
      Pages 218-232
    4. Preference-Based Diagnosis Selection in Multi-Context Systems

      • Thomas Eiter, Michael Fink, Antonius Weinzierl
      Pages 233-248
  6. Abstract Argumentation

    1. Reduction-Based Approaches to Implement Modgil’s Extended Argumentation Frameworks

      • Wolfgang Dvořák, Sarah Alice Gaggl, Thomas Linsbichler, Johannes Peter Wallner
      Pages 249-264
    2. Infinite Argumentation Frameworks

      • Ringo Baumann, Christof Spanring
      Pages 281-295

About this book

This Festschrift is published in honor of Gerhard Brewka on the occasion of his 60th birthday and contains articles from fields reflecting the breadth of Gerd's work. The 24 scientific papers included in the book are written by close friends and colleagues and cover topics such as Actions and Agents, Nonmonotonic and Human Reasoning, Preferences and Argumentation.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institut für Informationssysteme, Technische Universität Wien, Wien, Austria

    Thomas Eiter, Stefan Woltran

  • Institut für Informatik, Abteilung Intelligente Systeme, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

    Hannes Strass

  • Department of Computer Science, University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA

    Mirosław Truszczyński

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