Challenges for Action Theories

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XIV

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2. Foundations of Action Theories

   Pages 1-15

3. The Ramification Problem

   Pages 17-83

4. The Qualification Problem

   Pages 85-118

5. Qualified Ramifications

   Pages 119-124

6. Back Matter

   Pages 125-138

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A logic-based approach to the design of computing systems would, undoubtedly, offer many advantages over the imperative paradigm most commonly applied so far for programming and hardware design and, consequently, logic, again and again, has been heralded as the basis for the next generation of computer systems. While logic and formal methods are indeed gaining ground in many areas of computer science and artificial intelligence the expected revolution has not yet happened. In this book the author offers a convincing solution to the ramification problem and qualification problem associated with the frame problem and thus contributes to a satisfactory solution of the core problem and related challenges. Thielscher bases his approach on the fluent calculus, a first-order Prolog-like formalism allowing for the description of actions and change.

• AI-Logic
• Evolution
• Formal Logic
• Prolog
• action theories
• artificial intelligence
• deduction
• formal methods
• frame problem
• intelligence
• logic
• logic-programming
• mathematical logic
• ramification problem
• robotics

• Computational Logic, Technische Universität Dresden Informatik, Dresden, Germany

  Michael Thielscher

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