ISMIS 1994: Methodologies for Intelligent Systems pp 521-530 | Cite as
Circumscribing features and fluents: A fluent logic for reasoning about action and change
Abstract
Sandewall has recently proposed a systematic approach to the representation of knowledge about dynamical systems that includes a general framework in which to assess the range of applicability of existing and new logics for action and change. As part of the framework, several logics of preferential entailment are introduced and assessed for particular classes of action scenario descriptions. The intent of this paper is to provide syntactic characterizations of several of these relations of preferential entailment in terms of circumscription with a standard base logic consisting of FOPC with temporal terms and discrete time. It turns out that occluded circumscription, which covers the broadest class of action scenarios, and includes many of the most problematic scenarios studied in the literature, is one of the most straightforward logics considered. The class includes scenarios with non-deterministic actions, actions with duration, partial specification of any state including the first, and incomplete specification of the timing and order of actions.
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Action Schema Reasoning Task Schedule Statement Frame Problem Action SymbolPreview
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