Coherent Systems: Volume 2

by Karl Schlechta

One aspect of common sense reasoning is reasoning about normal cases, e.g. a physician will first try to interpret symptoms by a common disease, and will take more exotic possibilities only later into account. Such "normality" can be encoded, e.g. by a relation, where case A is considered more normal than case B. This gives a standard semantics or interpretation to nonmonotonic reasoning (a branch of common sense reasoning), or, more formally,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0444517898
• ISBN13: 9780444517890
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Length: 468 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.1"