Newsletter and News Journal on
Reasoning about Actions and Change

January, 1998

Individual Newsletter issues during this month

The text version of these issues was distributed by electronic mail on the indicated date. At the same time, the online (HTML) version was posted in the present www structure. Minor retroactive corrections may occur. The contents of this Newsletter was used for composing the News Journal specified above.
Date Email Web ps Contents
5.1.1998 98001 98001 98001 New facilities
6.1.1998 98002 98002 98002 New book by Reiter
9.1.1998 98003 98003 98003 Thielscher answer to questions by Cordier and Nejdl
20.1.1998 98004 98004 98004 Hayes vs. Sandewall on methodology
21.1.1998 98005 98005 98005 Sandewall and Geffner answers to Hayes
22.1.1998 98006 98006 98006 Shanahan answer to Hayes, Hayes answer to Geffner and Shanahan
23.1.1998 98007 98007 98007 Geffner, Pearl, Poole responding to Hayes in methodology debate
25.1.1998 98008 98008 98008 Hayes answers to Geffner, Pearl, Poole; Sandewall questions to Bibel
26.1.1998 98009 98009 98009 Pearl and Sandewall answer to Hayes on nature of actions and observations; Thielscher on nonmonotonicity wrt observations
27.1.1998 98010 98010 98010 Pereira answers re submitted article; Bibel answers re IJCAI invited article
28.1.1998 98011 98011 98011 Thielscher about qualification and surprises; Sandewall about citation practices
29.1.1998 98012 98012 98012 Gelfond and Pereira questions on ontologies
30.1.1998 98013 98013 98013 Geffner answer to Gelfond

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