基于四值语义的缺省逻辑

基于公式变换,给出一组缺省理论的变换方法,将命题语言L中的缺省理论变换到对应的命题语言L^-＋中,保证了所得到的缺省理论的所有扩张均不平凡,并通过一种弱变换可同时保证缺省扩张的存在性．为缺省理论定义了各种四值模型,使得缺省逻辑具有非单调超协调推理能力,并证明了L^-＋中的缺省扩张与L中缺省理论的四值模型之间具有一一对应关系．四值模型描述了公式变换的语义,基于四值语义的缺省推理通过缺省理论的变换技术能在标准的缺省逻辑中实现．     

Temporalizing Epistemic Default Logic

We present an epistemic default logic, based on the metaphore of a meta-level architecture. Upward reflection is formalized by a nonmonotonic entailment relation, based on the objective facts that are either known or unknown at the object level. Then, the meta (monotonic) reasoning process generates a number of default-beliefs of object-level formulas. We extend this framework by proposing a mechanism to reflect these defaults down. Such a reflection is seen as essentially having a temporal flavour: defaults derived at the meta-level are projected as facts in a next object level state. In this way, we obtain temporal models for default reasoning in meta-level formalisms which can be conceived as labeled branching trees. Thus, descending the tree corresponds to shifts in time that model downward reflection, whereas the branching of the tree corresponds to ways of combining possible defaults. All together, this yields an operational or procedural semantics of reasoning by default, which admits one to reason about it by means of branching-time temporal logic. Finally, we define sceptical and credulous entailment relations based on these temporal models and we characterize Reiter extensions in our semantics.     

认识逻辑(1):关于知识和信念的逻辑框架

知识和信念是人工智能领域研究中经常涉及到的两个重要概念。本文讨论了知识和信念的涵义与关系，定义了认识逻辑系统ＥＩ，讨论了它的语法和语义，证明了认识逻辑ＥＬ不但是可靠的而且是完备的，认为逻辑ＥＬ不但可以用来描述人类的认识过程，还可以用于对常识推理以及分布式系统的形式化描述。     

Reasoning with Sets of Defaults in Default Logic

We present a general approach for representing and reasoning with sets of defaults in default logic, focusing on reasoning about preferences among sets of defaults. First, we consider how to control the application of a set of defaults so that either all apply (if possible) or none do (if not). From this, an approach to dealing with preferences among sets of default rules is developed. We begin with an ordered default theory , consisting of a standard default theory, but with possible preferences on sets of rules. This theory is transformed into a second, standard default theory wherein the preferences are respected. The approach differs from other work, in that we obtain standard default theories and do not rely on prioritized versions of default logic. In practical terms this means we can immediately use existing default logic theorem provers for an implementation. Also, we directly generate just those extensions containing the most preferred applied rules; in contrast, most previous approaches generate all extensions, then select the most preferred. In a major application of the approach, we show how semimonotonic default theories can be encoded so that reasoning can be carried out at the object level. With this, we can reason about default extensions from within the framework of a standard default logic. Hence one can encode notions such as skeptical and credulous conclusions, and can reason about such conclusions within a single extension.     

Stable and extension class theory for logic programs and default logics

The stable model semantics (cf. Gelfond and Lifschitz [1]) for logic programs suffers from the problem that programs may not always have stable models. Likewise, default theories suffer from the problem that they do not always have extensions. In such cases, both these formalisms for non-monotonic reasoning have an inadequate semantics. In this paper, we propose a novel idea-that of extension classes for default logics, and of stable classes for logic programs. It is shown that the extension class and stable class semantics extend the extension and stable model semantics respectively. This allows us to reason about inconsistent default theories, and about logic programs with inconsistent completions. Our work extends the results of Marek and Truszczynski [2] relating logic programming and default logics.     

认知描述逻辑ALCKR＋：描述逻辑的一个非单调扩展

描述逻辑是语义Web的逻辑基础,是形式化表达领域知识的工具.但是描述逻辑只能表达单调推理,不能处理不完全知识.认知描述逻辑因其非单调特性和良好的时间复杂度等特点在处理不完全知识方面有较好的优势.本文在认知描述逻辑ALCK的基础上提出了新的认知描述逻辑语言ALCKR ,保留了描述逻辑原有的优点,加入传递角色属性,增强了表达能力,并通过认知查询拥有了非单调推理的能力.设计了ALCKR 的语法、语义以及表算法.     

Compositional Verification of Multi-Agent Systems in Temporal Multi-Epistemic Logic

Compositional verification aims at managing the complexity of theverification process by exploiting compositionality of the systemarchitecture. In this paper we explore the use of a temporal epistemiclogic to formalize the process of verification of compositionalmulti-agent systems. The specification of a system, its properties andtheir proofs are of a compositional nature, and are formalized within acompositional temporal logic: Temporal Multi-Epistemic Logic. It isshown that compositional proofs are valid under certain conditions.Moreover, the possibility of incorporating default persistence ofinformation in a system, is explored. A completion operation on aspecific type of temporal theories, temporal completion, is introducedto be able to use classical proof techniques in verification withrespect to non-classical semantics covering default persistence.     

Uniform semantic treatment of default and autoepistemic logics

We revisit the issue of epistemological and semantic foundations for autoepistemic and default logics, two leading formalisms in nonmonotonic reasoning. We develop a general semantic approach to autoepistemic and default logics that is based on the notion of a belief pair and that exploits the lattice structure of the collection of all belief pairs. For each logic, we introduce a monotone operator on the lattice of belief pairs. We then show that a whole family of semantics can be defined in a systematic and principled way in terms of fixpoints of this operator (or as fixpoints of certain closely related operators). Our approach elucidates fundamental constructive principles in which agents form their belief sets, and leads to approximation semantics for autoepistemic and default logics. It also allows us to establish a precise one-to-one correspondence between the family of semantics for default logic and the family of semantics for autoepistemic logic. The correspondence exploits the modal interpretation of a default proposed by Konolige. Our results establish conclusively that default logic can be viewed as a fragment of autoepistemic logic, a result that has been long anticipated. At the same time, they explain the source of the difficulty to formally relate the semantics of default extensions by Reiter and autoepistemic expansions by Moore. These two semantics occupy different locations in the corresponding families of semantics for default and autoepistemic logics.     

Probabilistic Dynamic Epistemic Logic

In this paper I combine the dynamic epistemic logic ofGerbrandy (1999) with the probabilistic logic of Fagin and Halpern (1994). The resultis a new probabilistic dynamic epistemic logic, a logic for reasoning aboutprobability, information, and information change that takes higher orderinformation into account. Probabilistic epistemic models are defined, and away to build them for applications is given. Semantics and a proof systemis presented and a number of examples are discussed, including the MontyHall Dilemma.     

时态认知逻辑CTL＊K的符号化模型检查算法

时序认知逻辑是由时序逻辑和认知逻辑组合而成的逻辑,主要应用于多主体系统的规范定义.大多数时序认知逻辑是基于CTL的,表达能力有限.并且已知的一些模型检查算法存在内存不足和状态爆炸等问题.讨论了基于CTL*的时态认知逻辑cTL*K的语法、语义和模型,它能够在表达力很强的时态逻辑CTL*基础上描述智能体的知识、目标等意向特征.并给出了CTL*K的模型检查算法,其核心思想就是将CTL*K公式的检查问题转化为CTL*公式的模型检查问题,可以使检查的系统规模得以大幅度提高.并且将算法编码后容易集成到NuSMV模型检查器.     

A Correct Logic Programming Computation of Default Logic Extensions

We present a method of representing some classes of default theories as normal logic programs. The main point is that the standart semantics (i.e., SLDNF-resolution) computes answer substitutions that correspond exactly to the extensions of the represented default theory. This means that we give a correct implementation of default logic. We explain the steps of constructing a logic program LogProg(P, D) from a given default theory (P, D), give some examples, and derive soundness and completeness results.     

Embedding defaults into terminological knowledge representation formalisms

We consider the problem of integrating Reiter's default logic into terminological representation systems. It turns out that such an integration is less straightforward than we expected, considering the fact that the terminological language is a decidable sublanguage of first-order logic. Semantically, one has the unpleasant effect that the consequences of a terminological default theory may be rather unintuitive, and may even vary with the syntactic structure of equivalent concept expressions. This is due to the unsatisfactory treatment of open defaults via Skolemization in Reiter's semantics. On the algorithmic side, we show that this treatment may lead to an undecidable default consequence relation, even though our base language is decidable, and we have only finitely many (open) defaults. Because of these problems, we then consider a restricted semantics for open defaults in our terminological default theories: default rules are applied only to individuals that are explicitly present in the knowledge base. In this semantics it is possible to compute all extensions of a finite terminological default theory, which means that this type of default reasoning is decidable. We describe an algorithm for computing extensions and show how the inference procedures of terminological systems can be modified to give optimal support to this algorithm.This is a revised and extended version of a paper presented at the3rd International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, October 1992, Cambridge, MA.     

缺省理论与相信理论的关系

本文在相信逻辑中引入相信解释与相信模的概念，从语义上把相信逻辑改造成非单调逻辑。一个缺省理论可以直接转换成一个相信逻辑理论，本文中证明了一个缺省理论外延的模集就是对应相信理论的模，从而为缺省理论提供了一种简便的语义。     

基于一阶模态逻辑的模糊推理

研究基于可信度的模糊一阶模态逻辑,给出了基于常域的模糊一阶模态逻辑语义以及推理形式系统描述.为有效进行模糊断言间的推理,考虑了模糊约束的概念.模糊约束是一个表达式,其中既有语法成分又包含意义信息.模糊推理形式系统中的基本对象是模糊约束,针对模糊约束引进可满足性概念,研究模糊约束可满足性相关性质.利用模糊约束的概念,模糊断言间的推理可以直接在语义环境下加以考虑,因此,以模糊约束为基本元素的模糊推理形式系统随之建立.主要分析新产生断言有效性与模糊约束集可满足性之间的关系,并在此基础上给出了模糊推理形式系统的推理规则.进一步的工作可探讨模糊推理形式系统的可靠性与完全性,建立推理过程的能行机制.研究结果可在人工智能和计算机科学等领域得以应用.     

Autoepistemic logic of first order and its expressive power

We study the expressive power of first-order autoepistemic logic. We argue that full introspection of rational agents should be carried out by minimizing positive introspection and maximizing negative introspection. Based on full introspection, we propose the maximal well-founded semantics that characterizes autoepistemic reasoning processes of rational agents, and show that breadth of the semantics covers all theories in autoepistemic logic of first order, Moore's AE logic, and Reiter's default logic. Our study demonstrates that the autoepistemic logic of first order is a very powerful framework for nonmonotonic reasoning, logic programming, deductive databases, and knowledge representation.This research is partially supported by NSERC grant OGP42193.     

时态描述逻辑ALC-LTL的Tableau判定算法

时态描述逻辑ALC-LTL将描述逻辑ALC的描述能力与线性时态逻辑LTL的刻画能力结合起来,在具有较强描述能力的同时还使得可满足性问题保持在EXPTIME-完全这个级别。针对ALC-LTL缺少有效的判定算法的现状,将LTL的Tableau判定算法与描述逻辑ALC的推理机制有机地结合起来,给出了ALC-LTL的Tableau判定算法并证明了算法的可终止性、可靠性和完备性。该算法具有很好的可扩展性。当ALC-工`I'I、中的描述逻辑从ALC改变为任何一个具有可判定性特征的描述逻辑X时,只需要对算法进行简单修改,就可以得到相应的时态描述逻辑X-LTL的Tableau判定算法。     

基于时序描述逻辑的UML顺序图形式化方法

根据统一建模语言(UML)顺霤图的时霤特征,提出一种基于时霤描述逻辑ALCQIUS的UML顺霤图需式化方法。研究ALCQIUS时霤扩展部分的语法和语义、ALCQIUS断言公式集一致霆定理,给出ALCQIUS断言公式集一致霆推理算法,并证明该推理算法的可判定霆。以公安报警系统为例,说明基于ALCQIUS的UML顺霤图需式化规约和需式化验证具备可霂霆,并且ALCQIUS为UML顺霤图需式化提供了合理的逻辑基础。     

A Comparative Study of Default Reasoning and Epistemic Processes

A comparative study between the theories of default reasoning and open logic is given.Some concepts of open logic,such as new premises,rejections by facts,reconstructions ,epistemic processes,and its limit are introduced to describe th evolution of hypotheses.An improved version of the limit theorem is given and proved.A model-theoretic interpretation of the closed normal defaults is given using the above concepts and the corresponding completeness is proved.Any extension of a closed normal default theory is proved to be the linit of a δ-partial increasing epistemic process of that theory,and vice versa.It is proved that there exist two distinct extensions of a closed normal default theory iff there is an δ-non-monotonic epistemic process of that theory.The completeness of Reiter‘s proof is also given and proved,in terms of the epistemic processes.Finally,the work is compared with Gaerdenfors‘s theory of knowledge in flux.     

结合度量空间和时间的逻辑

与时态和空间有关的推理问题是人工智能研究中重要的组成部分，近年来时空逻辑的研究受到相关领域研究者的极大重视。以多维逻辑为框架表示时空知识，提出了一组将度量空间逻辑和时态逻辑相结合的逻辑模型PTL-MS、PTL-MS1、PTL-MS2，表示和推理随时间变化的距离关系，看成是时态逻辑和度量逻辑的迪卡尔乘积，给出了语义和语法，研究了它们的表达能力，用于时空约束满足问题、时空知识库以及移动对象数据库(MOD)等。