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Reactive Kripke Models and Contrary to Duty Obligations

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Deontic Logic in Computer Science (DEON 2008)

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This is an intuitive description of our approach to modelling contrary to duty obligations. We shall describe our ideas through the analysis of typical problematic examples taken from Carmo and Jones [6], L. van der Torre [14] and Prakken and Sergot [5].

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Gabbay, D.M. (2008). Reactive Kripke Models and Contrary to Duty Obligations. In: van der Meyden, R., van der Torre, L. (eds) Deontic Logic in Computer Science. DEON 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5076. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-70525-3_13

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