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

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.

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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.

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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.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages -
Marek Sergot: A Memoir....Pages 1-3
The Scientific Contribution of Marek Sergot....Pages 4-11
Teleo-Reactive Abductive Logic Programs....Pages 12-32
Semi-negative Abductive Logic Programs with Implicative Integrity Constraints: Semantics and Properties....Pages 33-51
What Is Negation as Failure?....Pages 52-78
The Importance of the Past in Interval Temporal Logics: The Case of Propositional Neighborhood Logic....Pages 79-102
Argumentation and the Event Calculus....Pages 103-122
Reactive Event Calculus for Monitoring Global Computing Applications....Pages 123-146
Reasoning about the Intentions of Agents....Pages 147-171
Symbolic Model Checking for Temporal-Epistemic Logic....Pages 172-195
GOAL Agents Instantiate Intention Logic....Pages 196-219
Open Texture and Argumentation: What Makes an Argument Persuasive?....Pages 220-233
Irrationality in Persuasive Argumentation....Pages 234-248
Some Reflections on Two Current Trends in Formal Argumentation....Pages 249-272
On the Representation of Normative Sentences in FOL....Pages 273-294
Why Be Afraid of Identity?....Pages 295-307
Contrary-To-Duties in Games....Pages 308-328
Logical Approaches to Authorization Policies....Pages 329-348
Decentralized Governance of Distributed Systems via Interaction Control....Pages 349-373
Back Matter....Pages 374-400
Managing User-Generated Content as a Knowledge Commons....Pages -
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