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Book Reasoning with Incomplete Information

Download or read book Reasoning with Incomplete Information written by David W. Etherington and published by Pitman Publishing. This book was released on 1988 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Automation of Reasoning with Incomplete Information

Download or read book The Automation of Reasoning with Incomplete Information written by Torsten Schaub and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1997 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reasoning with incomplete information constitutes a major challenge for any intelligent system. In fact, we expect such systems not to become paralyzed by missing information but rather to arrive at plausible results by bridging the gaps in the information available. A versatile way of reasoning in the absence of information is to reason by default. This book aims at providing formal and practical means for automating reasoning with incomplete information by starting from the approach taken by the framework of default logic. For this endeavor, a bridge is spanned between formal semantics, over systems for default reasoning, to efficient implementation.

Book Incomplete Information  Rough Set Analysis

Download or read book Incomplete Information Rough Set Analysis written by Ewa Orlowska and published by Physica. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1982, Professor Pawlak published his seminal paper on what he called "rough sets" - a work which opened a new direction in the development of theories of incomplete information. Today, a decade and a half later, the theory of rough sets has evolved into a far-reaching methodology for dealing with a wide variety of issues centering on incompleteness and imprecision of information - issues which playa key role in the conception and design of intelligent information systems. "Incomplete Information: Rough Set Analysis" - or RSA for short - presents an up-to-date and highly authoritative account of the current status of the basic theory, its many extensions and wide-ranging applications. Edited by Professor Ewa Orlowska, one of the leading contributors to the theory of rough sets, RSA is a collection of nineteen well-integrated chapters authored by experts in rough set theory and related fields. A common thread that runs through these chapters ties the concept of incompleteness of information to those of indiscernibility and similarity.

Book Reasoning Under Incomplete Information In Artificial Intelligence

Download or read book Reasoning Under Incomplete Information In Artificial Intelligence written by Léa Sombé and published by . This book was released on 1990-09-10 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The formalization of ``revisable reasoning'' has been the object of numerous works, developed independently and using many diverse approaches--approaches that are purely symbolic, use numbers to quantify uncertainty, are close to formal logic or less formalized; some deal with exceptions, and a smaller number consider the problem of knowledge bases of revision. This work presents and compares several of these revisable (incomplete) reasoning methods for use in AI. Each method is systematically evaluated with a single example to give the reader an appreciation of the rationale and use of each formulation. The logics considered include: default logic, non-monotonic modal logics, the supposition-based logic, the conditional logics, and the logics of uncertainty. The book also discusses the contribution of works on truth maintenance and logic of action.

Book Qualitative Reasoning

Download or read book Qualitative Reasoning written by Benjamin Kuipers and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Qualitative models are better able than traditional models to express states of incomplete knowledge about continuous mechanisms. Qualitative simulation guarantees to find all possible behaviors consistent with the knowledge in the model. This expressive power and coverage is important in problem solving for diagnosis, design, monitoring, explanation, and other applications of artificial intelligence.

Book Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems

Download or read book Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems written by Judea Pearl and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2014-06-28 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems is a complete and accessible account of the theoretical foundations and computational methods that underlie plausible reasoning under uncertainty. The author provides a coherent explication of probability as a language for reasoning with partial belief and offers a unifying perspective on other AI approaches to uncertainty, such as the Dempster-Shafer formalism, truth maintenance systems, and nonmonotonic logic. The author distinguishes syntactic and semantic approaches to uncertainty--and offers techniques, based on belief networks, that provide a mechanism for making semantics-based systems operational. Specifically, network-propagation techniques serve as a mechanism for combining the theoretical coherence of probability theory with modern demands of reasoning-systems technology: modular declarative inputs, conceptually meaningful inferences, and parallel distributed computation. Application areas include diagnosis, forecasting, image interpretation, multi-sensor fusion, decision support systems, plan recognition, planning, speech recognition--in short, almost every task requiring that conclusions be drawn from uncertain clues and incomplete information. Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems will be of special interest to scholars and researchers in AI, decision theory, statistics, logic, philosophy, cognitive psychology, and the management sciences. Professionals in the areas of knowledge-based systems, operations research, engineering, and statistics will find theoretical and computational tools of immediate practical use. The book can also be used as an excellent text for graduate-level courses in AI, operations research, or applied probability.

Book Principles and Practice of Semantic Web Reasoning

Download or read book Principles and Practice of Semantic Web Reasoning written by Hans J. Ohlbach and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2004-09-02 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best informal de?nition of the Semantic Web is maybe found in the May 2001Scienti?cAmericanarticle“TheSemanticWeb”(Berners-Leeetal. ),which says“TheSemanticWebisanextensionofthecurrentWebinwhichinformation is given well-de?ned meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation. ” People who work on the Semantic Web quite often base their work on the famous “semantic web tower”, a product of Tim Berners-Lee’s inspiring drawing on whiteboards. The lowest level is the level of character representation (Unicode) and the identi?cation of resources on the Web (URIs). The highest level concerns the problem of trusting information on the Web. Somewhere in the middle of the tower is the logic level. It addresses the problem of represe- ing information on the Web in a way so that inference rules can derive implicit information from explicitly stated information. The workshop “Principles and Practices of Semantic Web Reasoning” (PPSWR 2004) addressed problems on this level. It took place in September 2004 as a satellite event of the 20th Int- national Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP) in St. Malo, France. After PPSWR 2003 in Mumbai, India, it was the second workshop in this series. This book contains the articles presented at the workshop.

Book Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning

Download or read book Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning written by Jon Doyle and published by Morgan Kaufmann. This book was released on 1994 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The proceedings of KR '94 comprise 55 papers on topics including deduction an search, description logics, theories of knowledge and belief, nonmonotonic reasoning and belief revision, action and time, planning and decision-making and reasoning about the physical world, and the relations between KR

Book COMADEM 89 International

    Book Details:
  • Author : Raj B. K. N. Rao
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2012-12-06
  • ISBN : 1468489054
  • Pages : 558 pages

Download or read book COMADEM 89 International written by Raj B. K. N. Rao and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: RajB KNRao Conference Director, Birmingham Polytechnic Condition Monitoring and Diagnostic Engineering Management (COMADEM) is a relatively new field that has already made its mark in a wide range of industries. But all the signs are that even more will be required of researchers in the field over the next decade, for COMADEM directly addresses a whole range of issues that are likely to become increasingly important to companies as competitiveness increases along with the uncertainties resulting from rapid technological change. Already for example, businesses are having to scrutinize the economics of plant and machinery in greater detail than ever before; reliability is becoming a crucial factor as the costs of unscheduled breakdowns rise and there is increasing pressure on companies to demonstrate and assure improved health and safety conditions, especially in light of the growing number of catastrophic accidents that have occured throughout the world. Because it offers solutions to these and similar problems, COMADEM is now gaining an international reputation as a problem-solving, user-friendly and financially beneficial multi-discipline with immense potential. Many people at the senior management level are now convinced that COMADEM has much to offer and are wasting no time in reaping maximum benefit from the latest developments. The fact that the first UK informal seminar on COMADEM - COMADEM 88 - proved to be a great success and had a truly international flavour reflected this growing interest in the new field.

Book Dynamic Fuzzy Logic and Its Applications

Download or read book Dynamic Fuzzy Logic and Its Applications written by Fanzhang Li and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dynamic fuzzy problem are problems that are universally focused by academies. Mathematicians and cybernetic experts have used fuzzy logic to developed theories and solve static problems in so called subjective and objective worlds. This book includes 12 chapters. Chapter 1 is about basic conceptions of Dynamic Fuzzy Sets (DFS). Chapter 2 introduces Dynamic Fuzzy (DF) decomposition theorem. Chapter 3 is about L form of DFS module structure. Chapter 4 is about representation theorem of DFS. Chapter 5 introduces extension theorem of DFS. Chapter 6 is about DF measure theory. In chapter 7 it is Dynamic Fuzzy Logic (DFL). Chapter 8 is about reasoning methods of DFL. Chapter 9 is about bases of DFL programming language. Chapter 10 introduces multi-agent learning model based on DFL. Chapter 11 is about autonomic computing model based on DFL. The last Chapter introduces application of DFL in machine learning.

Book ECAI 2014

    Book Details:
  • Author : T. Schaub
  • Publisher : IOS Press
  • Release : 2014-08
  • ISBN : 1614994196
  • Pages : 1264 pages

Download or read book ECAI 2014 written by T. Schaub and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2014-08 with total page 1264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role of artificial intelligence (AI) applications in fields as diverse as medicine, economics, linguistics, logical analysis and industry continues to grow in scope and importance. AI has become integral to the effective functioning of much of the technical infrastructure we all now take for granted as part of our daily lives. This book presents the papers from the 21st biennial European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ECAI 2014, held in Prague, Czech Republic, in August 2014. The ECAI conference remains Europe's principal opportunity for researchers and practitioners of Artificial Intelligence to gather and to discuss the latest trends and challenges in all subfields of AI, as well as to demonstrate innovative applications and uses of advanced AI technology. Included here are the 158 long papers and 94 short papers selected for presentation at the conference. Many of the papers cover the fields of knowledge representation, reasoning and logic as well as agent-based and multi-agent systems, machine learning, and data mining. The proceedings of PAIS 2014 and the PAIS System Demonstrations are also included in this volume, which will be of interest to all those wishing to keep abreast of the latest developments in the field of AI.

Book New Foundations for Automation of Default Reasoning

Download or read book New Foundations for Automation of Default Reasoning written by Thomas Linke and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Many Valued and Nonmonotonic Turn in Logic

Download or read book The Many Valued and Nonmonotonic Turn in Logic written by Dov M. Gabbay and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2007-08-13 with total page 691 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume of the Handbook of the History of Logic brings together two of the most important developments in 20th century non-classical logic. These are many-valuedness and non-monotonicity. On the one approach, in deference to vagueness, temporal or quantum indeterminacy or reference-failure, sentences that are classically non-bivalent are allowed as inputs and outputs to consequence relations. Many-valued, dialetheic, fuzzy and quantum logics are, among other things, principled attempts to regulate the flow-through of sentences that are neither true nor false. On the second, or non-monotonic, approach, constraints are placed on inputs (and sometimes on outputs) of a classical consequence relation, with a view to producing a notion of consequence that serves in a more realistic way the requirements of real-life inference. Many-valued logics produce an interesting problem. Non-bivalent inputs produce classically valid consequence statements, for any choice of outputs. A major task of many-valued logics of all stripes is to fashion an appropriately non-classical relation of consequence.The chief preoccupation of non-monotonic (and default) logicians is how to constrain inputs and outputs of the consequence relation. In what is called “left non-monotonicity , it is forbidden to add new sentences to the inputs of true consequence-statements. The restriction takes notice of the fact that new information will sometimes override an antecedently (and reasonably) derived consequence. In what is called “right non-monotonicity , limitations are imposed on outputs of the consequence relation. Most notably, perhaps, is the requirement that the rule of or-introduction not be given free sway on outputs. Also prominent is the effort of paraconsistent logicians, both preservationist and dialetheic, to limit the outputs of inconsistent inputs, which in classical contexts are wholly unconstrained.In some instances, our two themes coincide. Dialetheic logics are a case in point. Dialetheic logics allow certain selected sentences to have, as a third truth value, the classical values of truth and falsity together. So such logics also admit classically inconsistent inputs. A central task is to construct a right non-monotonic consequence relation that allows for these many-valued, and inconsistent, inputs.The Many Valued and Non-Monotonic Turn in Logic is an indispensable research tool for anyone interested in the development of logic, including researchers, graduate and senior undergraduate students in logic, history of logic, mathematics, history of mathematics, computer science, AI, linguistics, cognitive science, argumentation theory, and the history of ideas. Detailed and comprehensive chapters covering the entire range of modal logic. Contains the latest scholarly discoveries and interprative insights that answers many questions in the field of logic.

Book AALIANCE Ambient Assisted Living Roadmap

Download or read book AALIANCE Ambient Assisted Living Roadmap written by Seventh Framework Programme (European Commission) and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Title page -- AALIANCE - The European Ambient Assisted Living Innovation Platform -- Foreword -- Executive Summary -- Table of contents -- List of Roadmaps -- List of Scenarios -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Introduction -- Structure of the Roadmap -- Roadmapping Process -- Scope of AAL -- Technological trends and barriers in AAL -- Technological trends -- Technological barriers -- AAL for persons -- AAL for health, rehabilitation and care -- Support for chronic disease management -- Biorobotics for neuro-rehabilitation -- Support for multi-disciplinary care teams -- Consolidated view -- Coping with impairments and disabilities -- Motor disabilities -- Personal activity management and monitoring -- Physical activity -- Mental activity -- Consolidated view -- Personal and home safety and security -- Open issues -- Safety in the face of specific threats -- Activities of Daily Life oriented support -- Other "common" activities -- Shopping -- Eat and drink -- Social interaction and communication -- AAL in the community -- Social inclusion -- Participation in community activities -- Creativity, hobbies and sports -- Cultural and experience exchanges -- Entertainment and leisure -- Training the brain -- Exercise and gaming -- Mobility -- Supporting individual physical mobility -- AA-driving (cars/private vehicles) -- Public transport -- AAL at work -- Background -- Work ability -- Employers' attitudes to older workers -- Training in and for the workplace -- Issues of work-life balance -- Needs of older workers in the workplace -- Access to working space -- Assuring environmental working conditions -- Support for working -- Prevention of diseases and injuries -- Safety and health regulations -- Enabling Technologies -- Sensing -- Sensors for safety and security in the environments -- Sensors for monitoring persons -- Sensor networks.

Book Computational Logic in Multi Agent Systems

Download or read book Computational Logic in Multi Agent Systems written by Jürgen Dix and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-10-29 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed and revised post-conference proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Computational Logic for Multi-Agent Systems, CLIMA X, held in Hamburg, Germany, in September 2009 - co-located with MATES 2009, the 7th German conference on Multi-Agent System Technologies. The 9 full papers, presented together with one invited paper, were carefully selected and reviewed from 18 submissions. The topics covered are formal approaches and model checking, belief-desire-intention, answer set programming and (multi-)agent systems, and coordination and deliberation.

Book Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning

Download or read book Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning written by Thomas Eiter and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2001-09-05 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning, LPNMR 2001, held in Vienna, Austria in September 2001. The 22 revised full papers and eleven system descriptions presented with five invited papers were carefully reviewed and rigorously selected. Among the topics addressed are computational logic, declarative information extraction, model checking, inductive logic programming, default theories, stable logic programming, program semantics, incomplete information processing, concept learning, declarative specification, Prolog programming, many-valued logics, etc.

Book Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning and Uncertainty

Download or read book Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning and Uncertainty written by Anthony Hunter and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1999-06-16 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 1999 European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning under Uncertainty, ECSQARU'99, held in London, UK, in July 1999. The 35 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book by the program committee. The volume covers theoretical as well as application-oriented aspects of various formalisms for reasoning under uncertainty. Among the issues addressed are default reasoning, nonmonotonic reasoning, fuzzy logic, Bayesian theory, probabilistic reasoning, inductive learning, rough knowledge discovery, Dempster-Shafer theory, qualitative decision making, belief functions, and evidence theory.