Description: Conditionals, Information, And Inference : International Workshop, Wcii 2002, Hagen, Germany, May 13-15, 2002, Revised Selected Papers, Paperback by Kern-Isberner, Gabriele (EDT); Rodder, Wilhelm (EDT); Kulmann, Friedhelm (EDT), ISBN 3540253327, ISBN-13 9783540253327, Brand New, Free P&P in the UK Conditionals are fascinating and versatile objects of knowledge representation. On the one hand, they may express rules in a very general sense, representing, for example, plausible relationships, physical laws, and social norms. On the other hand, as default rules or general implications, they constitute a basic tool for reasoning, even in the presence of uncertainty. In this sense, conditionals are intimately connected both to information and inference. Due to their non-Boolean nature, however, conditionals are not easily dealt with. They are not simply true or false — rather, a conditional “if A then B” provides a context, A, for B to be plausible (or true) and must not be confused with “A entails B” or with the material implication “not A or B.” This ill- trates how conditionals represent information, understood in its strict sense as reduction of uncertainty. To learn that, in the context A, the proposition B is plausible, may reduce uncertainty about B and hence is information. The ab- ity to predict such conditioned propositions is knowledge and as such (earlier) acquired information. The ?rst work on conditional objects dates back to Boole in the 19th c- tury, and the interest in conditionals was revived in the second half of the 20th century, when the emerging Arti?cial Intelligence made claims for appropriate formaltoolstohandle“generalizedrules.”Sincethen,conditionalshavebeenthe topic of countless publications, each emphasizing their relevance for knowledge representation, plausible reasoning, nonmonotonic inference, and belief revision.
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Book Title: Conditionals, Information, And Inference : International Workshop
Item Height: 235 mm
Item Width: 155 mm
Series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
Author: Friedhelm Kulmann, Wilhelm Roedder, Gabriele Kern-Isberner
Publication Name: Conditionals, Information, and Inference: International Workshop, WCII 2002, Hagen, Germany, May 13-15, 2002, Revised Selected Papers
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin AND Heidelberg Gmbh & Co. KG
Subject: Computer Science
Publication Year: 2005
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 750 g
Number of Pages: 219 Pages
