Logic-Based Knowledge Representation (Mit Press Series in Logic Programming)

Jackson, Peter,Reichgelt, Han,Van Harmelen, Frank

ISBN 10: 026210038X / ISBN 13: 9780262100380

Published by Mit Pr, 1989

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Logic-Based Knowledge Representation (Mit Press Series in Logic Programming)
• Publisher: Mit Pr
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 026210038X
• ISBN 13: 9780262100380
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

This book explores the building of expert systems using logic for knowledge representation and meta-level inference for control. It presents research done by members of the expert systems group of the Department of Artificial Intelligence in Edinburgh, often in collaboration with others, based on two hypotheses: that logic is a suitable knowledge representation language, and that an explicit representation of the control regime of the theorem prover has many advantages.

The editors introduce these hypotheses and present the arguments in their favor They then describe Socrates' a tool for the construction of expert systems that is based on these assumptions. They devote the remaining chapters to the solution of problems that arise from the restrictions imposed by Socrates's representation language and from the system's inefficiency.

The chapters dealing with the representation problem present a reified approach to temporal logic that makes it possible to use nonstandard logics without extending the system, and describe a general proof method for arbitrary modal logics. Those dealing with the efficiency problem discuss the technique of partial evaluation and its limitations, as well as another possible solution known as assertion-time inference.

Peter Jackson is a Senior Scientist in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Sciences at the McDonnell Douglas Research Laboratory in St. Louis. Han Reichgelt is a Lecturer in Department of Psychology at the University of Nottingham. Frank van Harmelen is a Research Fellow in the Mathematical Reasoning Group at the University of Edinburgh.

About the Author

Frank van Harmelen is Professor in the Department of Artificial Intelligence at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.