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- Emphasis not on motivation or context but on formal methods
- Suitable for graduate students and researchers
- Supported with exercises
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About this book
The two volumes in this advanced textbook present results, proof methods, and translations of motivational and philosophical considerations to formal constructions. In the associated Vol. I the author explains preferential structures and abstract size. In this Vol. II he presents chapters on theory revision and sums, defeasible inheritance theory, interpolation, neighbourhood semantics and deontic logic, abstract independence, and various aspects of nonmonotonic and other logics.
In both volumes the text contains many exercises and some solutions, and the author limits the discussion of motivation and general context throughout, offering this only when it aids understanding of the formal material, in particular to illustrate the path from intuition to formalisation. Together these books are a suitable compendium for graduate students and researchers in the area of computer science and mathematical logic.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Karl Schlechta is a retired professor of computer science at Aix-Marseille University in France, and a member of the Laboratoire d’Informatique Fondamentale de Marseille. He works on nonmonotonic logics, theory revision, and related subjects, his main interest being the semantical side of these logics and in particular preferential structures and accompanying representation theorems. His books include Nonmonotonic Logics (1997), Coherent Systems (Elsevier 2004), Logical Tools for Handling Change in Agent-Based Systems (Springer 2009), Conditionals and Modularity in General Logics (Springer 2011), and A New Perspective on Nonmonotonic Logics (Springer 2016).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Formal Methods for Nonmonotonic and Related Logics
Book Subtitle: Vol II: Theory Revision, Inheritance, and Various Abstract Properties
Authors: Karl Schlechta
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89650-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-89649-6Published: 14 November 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-89650-2Published: 03 November 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXVIII, 473
Topics: Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages, Logic, Philosophy of Science, Mathematical Logic and Foundations, Artificial Intelligence