Logic Programs, Norms and Action : Essays in Honor of Marek J. Sergot on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday

by Artikis, Alexander; Craven, Robert; Cicekli, Nihan Kesim; Sadighi, Babak; Stathis, Kostas

• ISBN13: 9783642294136
• ISBN10: 3642294138
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-05-25
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc

Summary

This book is dedicated to Marek Sergot, Professor in Computational Logic at Imperial College London, on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Professor Sergot's scientific contributions range over many different fields. He has developed a series of novel ideas and formal methods bridging areas including artificial intelligence, computational logic, philosophical logic, legal theory, artificial intelligence and law, multi-agent systems and bioinformatics. By combining his background in logic and computing with his interest in the law, deontic logic, action, and related areas, and applying to all his capacity to understand the subtleties of social interaction and normative reasoning, Professor Sergot has opened up new directions of research, and has been a reference, an inspiration, and a model for many researchers in the fields to which he has contributed. The Festschrift includes several reminiscences and introductory essays describing Professor Sergot's achievements, followed by a series of articles on logic programming, temporal reasoning and action languages, artificial intelligence and law, deontic logic and norm-governed systems, and logical approaches to policies.

Table of Contents

Marek Sergot: A Memoir	p. 1
The Scientific Contribution of Marek Sergot	p. 4
Logic Programming
Teleo-Reactive Abductive Logic Programs	p. 12
Semi-negative Abductive Logic Programs with Implicative Integrity Constraints: Semantics and Properties	p. 33
What Is Negation as Failure?	p. 52
Temporal Reasoning and Action Languages
The Importance of the Past in Interval Temporal Logics: The Case of Propositional Neighborhood Logic	p. 79
Argumentation and the Event Calculus	p. 103
Reactive Event Calculus for Monitoring Global Computing Applications	p. 123
Reasoning about the Intentions of Agents	p. 147
Symbolic Model Checking for Temporal-Epistemic Logic	p. 172
GOAL Agents Instantiate Intention Logic	p. 196
AI and Law
Open Texture and Argumentation: What Makes an Argument Persuasive?	p. 220
Irrationality in Persuasive Argumentation	p. 234
Some Reflections on Two Current Trends in Formal Argumentation	p. 249
Deontic Logic and Norm-Governed Systems
On the Representation of Normative Sentences in FOL	p. 273
Why Be Afraid of Identity? Comments on Sergot and Prakken's Views	p. 295
Deon+: Abduction and Constraints for Normative Reasoning	p. 308
Contrary-To-Duties in Games	p. 329
Logical Approaches to Policies and Authorization
Logical Approaches to Authorization Policies	p. 349
Decentralized Governance of Distributed Systems via Interaction Control	p. 374
Managing User-Generated Content as a Knowledge Commons	p. 401
Author Index	p. 425
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