Logic and Information Flow

by Van Eijck, Jan; Visser, Albert

• ISBN13: 9780262220477
• ISBN10: 0262220474
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-05-06
• Publisher: Mit Pr
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Summary

The thirteen chapters written expressly for this book by logicians, theoretical computer scientists, philosophers, and semanticists address, from the perspective of mathematical logic, the problems of understanding and studying the flow of information through any information-processing system. The logic of information flow has applications in both computer science and natural language processing and is a growing area within mathematical and philosophical logic. Consequently, Logic and Information Flowwill be of interest to theoretical computer scientists wanting information on up-to-date formalisms of dynamic logic, and their possible applications; logicians who wish to expand their discipline beyond the realm of sound reasoning in the narrow sense; and philosophers who are looking at the nature of information and action, and at the relation between those concepts. Foundations of Computing series

Table of Contents

Series Foreword
Preface
Logic and Information Flow	p. 1
A Note on Dynamic Arrow Logic	p. 15
Axiomatizing Dynamic Predicate Logic with Quantified Dynamic Logic	p. 30
How Logic Emerges from the Dynamics of Information	p. 49
On Action Algebras	p. 78
Logic and Control: How They Determine the Behaviour of Presuppositions	p. 89
Classification Domains and Information Links: A Brief Survey	p. 112
Process Algebra and Dynamic Logic	p. 125
A Roadmap of Some Two-Dimensional Logics	p. 149
Some New Landmarks on the Roadmap of Two Dimensional Logics	p. 163
Meeting Some Neighbours	p. 170
Actions under Presuppositions	p. 196
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