@techreport{R-94-43, PSURL = {/publications/cgi-bin/tr-fetch.pl?r-94-43+ps}, ABSTRACTURL = {/publications/cgi-bin/tr-fetch.pl?r-94-43+abstr}, ABSTRACT = {This report describes the current state of work with PMON, a logic for reasoning about action and change. PMON has been assessed correct for the K-IA class using Sandewall's Features and Fluents framework which provides tools for assessing the correctness of logics of action and change. A syntactic characterization of PMON is provided in terms of a circumscription axiom which is shown to be reducible to a first-order formula. This creates the possibility for efficient implementation of the logic, a topic discussed in this report. In addition, besides considering the frame problem, PMON is extended to PMONR in order to deal with some restricted types of the ramification problem. It is also shown that PMONR is reducible to the first-order case. A number of benchmark examples are analyzed which show the advantages of reduction to the monotonic first-order case. In addition, an appendix is provided with a detailed description of the surface language for action scenarios and its reduction to the base logic FL, a first-order sorted logic. }, TITLE = {Notes on PMON Circumscription}, AUTHOR = {Patrick Doherty}, EMAIL = {patdo@ida.liu.se}, YEAR = {1994}, NUMBER = {R-94-43}, INSTITUTION = ida, ADDRESS = idaaddr, IDANR = {LiTH-IDA-R-94-43}, NOTE = {}