One more reference article is advertised today, this time by Patrick Doherty and his co-workers and describing their language tradition TAL. Also today, Tom Costello has a question to Graham White regarding his article on "Simulation, Ramification, and Linear Logic" that was advertised on September 21.

Patrick Doherty, Joakim Gustafsson, Lars Karlsson, and Jonas Kvarnström
TAL: Temporal Action Logics Language Specification and Tutorial.
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Abstract: The purpose of this article is to provide a uniform, lightweight language specification and tutorial for a class of temporal logics for reasoning about action and change that has been developed by our group during the period 1994-1998. The class of logics are collected under the name TAL, an acronym for Temporal Action Logics. TAL has its origins and inspiration in the work with Features and Fluents (FF) by Sandewall, but has diverged from the methodology and approach through the years. We first discuss distinctions and compatibility with FF, move on to the lightweight language specification, and then present a tutorial in terms of an excursion through the different parts of a relatively complex narrative defined using TAL. We conclude with an annotated list of published work from our group. The article tries to strike a reasonable balance between detail and readability, making a number of simplifications regarding narrative syntax and translation to a base logical language. Full details are available in numerous technical reports and articles which are listed in the final section of this article.

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Graham White
Simulation, Ramification, and Linear Logic