Honors, Awards, and Professional Service

The Burlington Northern Distinguished Achievement Award in Research
College of Engineering's Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
Area Editor of the Journal of Logic Programming (Knowledge Representation and Nonmonotonic Reasoning).
Executive Editor of the Journal of Logic and Computation.
Member of editorial board of the Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence.

Areas of Interest

Knowledge representation , logic programming, artificial intelligence

Summary of Research

I am interested in the development of languages for representing commonsense knowledge and investigating their mathematical and computational properties. My recent work deals with the semantics of logic programs and their extensions, logic programming and non-monotonic reasoning, the formal representation of properties of actions and their effects , and the representation of incomplete information in databases.

Selected Publications

M. Gelfond and T.C. Son: ``Reasoning with Prioritized Defaults'', (work in progress, comments are welcome.)

M.Gelfond and A.Gabaldon: ``From Functional Specifications to Logic Programs'', (This is the version with proofs of the ILPS'97 paper.)

C. Baral, M. Gelfond and A. Provetti, ``Reasoning About actions: Laws, Observations and Hypotheses'', Journal of Logic Programming vol. 31, pp. 201-244, 1997.

C. Baral, M. Gelfond, ``Reasoning About Effects of Concurrent Actions'', Journal of Logic Programming vol. 31, pp. 85--118, 1997.

M. Gelfond, H. Przymusinska, "Towards a Theory of Elaboration Tolerance: Logic Programming Approach", Journal on Software and Knowledge Engineering, vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 89-112, 1996.

C. Baral, M. Gelfond, ``Logic Programming and Knowledge Representation'', Journal of Logic Programming, 19,20:73-148, 1994. (Survey paper).

M. Gelfond and V. Lifschitz, ``Representing Actions and Change by Logic Programs'', Journal of Logic Programming, vol. 17, Num. 2,3,4, pp. 301--323, 1993.

M. Gelfond, ``Logic Programming and Reasoning with Incomplete Information'', Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, 12, pp. 89-116 1994.

M. Gelfond and H. Przymusinska, "Reasoning in Open Domains", Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning, Edited by L Pereira and A. Nerode, pp. 397-413, the MIT press, 1993.

M. Gelfond, V. Lifschitz, A. Rabinov, "What Are the Limitations of the Situation Calculus?", Automated Reasoning, Essays in Honor of Woody Bledsoe, Edited by S. Boyer, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1991, pp. 167-181.

M. Gelfond and V. Lifschitz, "Classical Negation in Logic Programs and Disjunctive Databases", New Generation Computing, vol. 9, pp. 365-385, 1991.

Classes

Material for Logic, AI, and Logic Programming Classes. "Logic", "AI", "Prolog"

Talks

Logic Programming and Reasoning about Actions and Time.slides.

Logic Based Approach to AI.slides.

Contact Information

Department of Computer Science

University of Texas at El Paso

El Paso, TX 79968, USA

email: mgelfond@cs.utep.edu

office phone: (915) 747-6957

fax: (915) 747-5030

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