Non-Monotonic Extensions of Logic Programming: Second International Workshop NMELP '96, Bad Honnef, Germany September 5 - 6, 1996, Selected Papers (Lecture ... / Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence)

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Non-Monotonic Extensions of Logic Programming, NMELP '96, held in Bad Honnef, Germany, in September 1996. The nine full papers presented in the volume in revised version were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 18 submissions; the set of papers addresses theoretical, applicational and implementational issues and reflects the current state of the art in the area of non-monotonic extensions of logic programming. An introductory survey by the volume editors entitled "Prolegomena to Logic Programming for Non-Monotonic Reasoning" deserves special mentioning; it contains a bibliography listing 136 entries. Prolegomena to logic programming for non-monotonic reasoning....Pages 1-36 On logics and semantics for general logic programs....Pages 37-56 A new logical characterisation of stable models and answer sets....Pages 57-70 Aggregation and well-founded semantics+....Pages 71-90 Nonmonotonic reasoning by monotonic inferences with priority constraints....Pages 91-109 Update-programms can update programs....Pages 110-131 An abductive proof procedure for reasoning about actions in modal logic programming....Pages 132-150 Update programs versus revision programs....Pages 151-170 Transformation-based bottom-up computation of the well-founded model....Pages 171-201 Computation of non-ground disjunctive well-founded semantics with constraint logic programming....Pages 202-224

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Non-Monotonic Extensions of Logic Programming, NMELP '96, held in Bad Honnef, Germany, in September 1996.
The nine full papers presented in the volume in revised version were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 18 submissions; the set of papers addresses theoretical, applicational and implementational issues and reflects the current state of the art in the area of non-monotonic extensions of logic programming. An introductory survey by the volume editors entitled Prolegomena to Logic Programming for Non-Monotonic Reasoning deserves special mentioning; it contains a bibliography listing 136 entries.

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