Electronic Newsletter Actions and Change

Electronic Newsletter on
Reasoning about Actions and Change

Issue 98026 Editor: Erik Sandewall 12.3.1998
The ETAI is organized and published under the auspices of the
European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI).

Today

The discussion that started around Peter Grünwald's article continues in fairly broad circles. Today, Murray Shanahan responds to a question earlier in the discussion re the use of causal approaches to ramification in the event calculus. Pat Hayes, in a response to an earlier question by Vladimir Lifschitz, argues for the need to characterize instantaneous changes. (Compare also answer by Jixin Ma to a question re the paper by Knight, Peng and Ma at the Commonsense workshop, [c-fcs-98-183]).

References:

c-fcs-98-183Brian Knight, Taoxin Peng, and Jixin Ma.
Reasoning about Change over Time: Actions, Events, and their Effects. [abstract] [postscript] [discussion]
Proc. Formalization of Commonsense Reasoning, 1998, pp. 183-197.

Discussions

Discussions about Articles at Commonsense workshop

Peter Grünwald
Ramifications and sufficient causes