• DocumentCode
    3129791
  • Title

    Contextual logic of change and contextual proofs

  • Author

    Matos, Pedro A. ; Martins, João P.

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. Superior Tecnico, Tech. Univ. Lisbon, Portugal
  • fYear
    1997
  • fDate
    10-11 May 1997
  • Firstpage
    153
  • Lastpage
    159
  • Abstract
    We discuss CLOC, an alternative approach to reasoning about action and change, which is neither based in the Situation Calculus nor in Circumscription. In our approach, inspired by the Possible Worlds Approach, change is modeled as changing the theory that models the world. We extended First Order Logic, in order to be able to represent elementary and structured changes, and define predicates relating propositions that hold in different situations. We present one rule of inference of this new logic, EXpμ, that is used for concluding what propositions hold after the execution of change. Furthermore, we argue that traditional proof systems, e.g. Fitch´s (1952) and Lemmon´s (1965) proof systems, are not suitable for this logic, and propose a proof system where we can distinguish between propositions that hold before and after change has taken place
  • Keywords
    formal logic; nonmonotonic reasoning; temporal reasoning; theorem proving; change; contextual logic; contextual proofs; first order logic; possible worlds approach; proof system; Calculus; Genetic mutations; Knowledge representation; Logic;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Temporal Representation and Reasoning, 1997. (TIME '97), Proceedings., Fourth International Workshop on
  • Conference_Location
    Dayton Beach, FL
  • Print_ISBN
    0-8186-7937-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/TIME.1997.600797
  • Filename
    600797