Formal Methods For Nonmonotonic And Related Logics

Download or read book Formal Methods for Nonmonotonic and Related Logics written by Karl Schlechta and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-11-03 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two volumes in this advanced textbook present results, proof methods, and translations of motivational and philosophical considerations to formal constructions. In the associated Vol. I the author explains preferential structures and abstract size. In this Vol. II he presents chapters on theory revision and sums, defeasible inheritance theory, interpolation, neighbourhood semantics and deontic logic, abstract independence, and various aspects of nonmonotonic and other logics. In both volumes the text contains many exercises and some solutions, and the author limits the discussion of motivation and general context throughout, offering this only when it aids understanding of the formal material, in particular to illustrate the path from intuition to formalisation. Together these books are a suitable compendium for graduate students and researchers in the area of computer science and mathematical logic.