European Colloquium on Spatial and Temporal Reasoning ECSTER /brs/Hanks 86 A/ 28.9.1995Steve Hanks and Drew McDermott: Default reasoning, nonmonotonic logics, and the frame problem. In National conference on artificial intelligence, 1986, pp. 328-333. [bibtex] [abstract]
This celebrated article has had a strong influence on subsequent research in the area. It presented the classical Yale Shooting Problem [examples/yss], which has served as a starting point and reference for many later contributions. For an overview of this literature, see the handbook article by Sandewall and Shoham, [header].
A revised version appeared later as a journal article: [header].