Logic Programming, Knowledge Representation, and Nonmonotonic Reasoning : Essays Dedicated to Michael Gelfond on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday

by Balduccini, Marcello; Son, Tran Cao

• ISBN13: 9783642208317
• ISBN10: 3642208312
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-06-24
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc

Summary

This Festschrift volume, published in honor of Michael Gelfond on the occasion of his 65th birthday, contains a collection of papers written by his closest friends and colleagues. Several of these papers were presented during the Symposium on Constructive Mathematics in Computer Science, held in Lexington, KY, USA on October 25-26, 2010. The 27 scientific papers included in the book focus on answer set programming. The papers are organized in sections named #xE2;#xAC;SFoundations: ASP and Theories of LP, KR, and NMR#xE2;#xAC;, #xE2;#xAC;SASP and Dynamic Domains#xE2;#xAC;, and #xE2;#xAC;SASP #xE2;#xAC;#x1C; Applications and Tools#xE2;#xAC;.

Table of Contents

Opening: Homage to Michael Gelfond on His 65th Birthday	p. 1
Foundations: ASP and Theories of LP, KR, and NMR
Answer Set Prograrnming's Contributions to Classical Logic: An Analysis of ASP Methodology	p. 12
Closure and Consistency Rationalities in Logic-Based Argumentation	p. 33
Manifold Answer-Set Programs and Their Applications	p. 44
On the Minimality of Stable Models	p. 64
Challenges in Answer Set Solving	p. 74
Exploring Relations between Answer Set Programs	p. 91
Compact Translations of Non-disjunctive Answer Set Programs to Prepositional Clauses	p. 111
Effectively Reasoning about Infinite Sets in Answer Set Programming	p. 131
Inspecting Side-Effects of Abduction in Logic Programs	p. 148
Argumentation and Answer Set Programming	p. 164
Interlude; Cantor's Paradise Regained: Constructive Mathematics from Brouwer to Kolmogorov to Gelfond	p. 181
Interlude: Recollections on Michael Gelfond's 65th Birthday	p. 191
ASP and Dynamic Domains
Evolving Logic Programs with Temporal Operators	p. 193
On Representing Actions in Multi-agent Domains	p. 213
Nonmonotonic Multi-Context Systems: A Flexible Approach for Integrating Heterogeneous Knowledge Sources	p. 233
Perspectives on Logic-Based Approaches for Reasoning about Actions and Change	p. 259
Refinement of History-Based Policies	p. 280
Translating General Game Descriptions into an Action Language	p. 300
Revisiting Epistemic Specifications	p. 315
Interlude:Answer Set;Programming	p. 334
Interlude:Michael Gelfond:Essay in Honour of His 65th Birthday	p. 344
Asp-Applicattions and Tools
Plini:A Probabilistic Logic Program Framework for Inconsistent News Information	p. 347
ASP as a Cognitive Modeling Tool: Short-Term Memory and Long-Term Memory	p. 377
A Temporally Expressive Planner Based on Answer Set Programming with Constraints:Preliminary Design	p. 398
Applications of Answer Set Programming in Phylogenetic Systematics	p. 415
ASP at Work: Spin-off and Applications of the DLV System	p. 432
Combining Answer Set Programming and Prolog: The ASP-PROLOG System	p. 452
On the Practical Side of Answer Set Programming	p. 473
ASTREA: Answer Sets for a Trusted Reasoning Environment for Agents	p. 490
Ending; Tea Times with Gelfond	p. 510
Author Index	p. 513
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