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    ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER ON  REASONING ABOUT ACTIONS AND CHANGE        
Issue 00007             Editor: Erik Sandewall             5.12.2000
         Back issues available at http://www.etaij.org/rac/
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                    *********  TODAY  *********

Congratulations today to Eyal Amir, for the acceptance of his article
"Object-Oriented First-Order Logic" following the recommendation of the
two confidential referees. Eyal's paper is one of several that were
submitted to the special issue with selected papers from last year's
NRAC workshop.

Today we also have a new submission, "On the meta-theoretic approach to
non-monotonic reasoning, its extension to the continuum case and
relation with classical Newtonian Mechanics", by Sergio Brandano. The
abstract follows below.



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        |  AUTHOR: Sergio Brandano
        |  TITLE:  On the meta-theoretic approach to non-monotonic 
        |            reasoning, its extension to the continuum case and 
        |            relation with classical Newtonian Mechanics
        |  PAPER:  http://www.ida.liu.se/ext/epa/cis/2000/042/tcover.html
        |            [provisional]
        |  REVIEW: http://www.ida.liu.se/ext/etai/ra/rac/030/
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                             ABSTRACT 

We summarize the definition and basic properties of the meta-theoretic
approach to non-monotonic reasoning, known as *Features and Fluents*,
together with its extension to the continuum case and the relation with 
classical Newtonian Mechanics.

The paper is designed for readers with no preliminary knowledge in the
topic.


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