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。     

利用格论研究缺省推理

本文提出了一组转换规则,使用这组转换规则可以把缺省规则转换成扩展规则,然后使用这些扩展规则去扩展缺省理论的初始逻辑公式集合,在这些扩展规则的基础上,我们提出了缺省格(default lattice)的概念,证明了缺省理论的外延刚好对应于它的缺省格的相容性集合的D-极大值,因此可以使用缺省格求出缺省理论的所有外延.     

标记辩论推理系统

Lin提出的辩论推理系统为非单调推理形式提供了一种统一的基础,其推理机制由所谓的论点结构实现．由Lin的系统导出的非单调推理并不具有累加性,而该性质是衡量一个非单调推理关系的重要标志之一．利用Brewka的方法,本文提出标记辩论推理的概念,并且证明缺省逻辑CDL可以嵌入本系统,从而也间接地给出了标记辩论系统具有累加性的一种充分条件．为了彻底地恢复累加性,本文提出了强封闭论点结构的概念,且由标记辩论系统的强封闭论点结构定义的非单调推理具有累加性．     

利用重写系统研究缺省逻辑

本文在布尔环重量写系统中研究了缺省逻辑。一个缺省理论等价于一个布尔环方程组。本文还分析了命题缺省理论外延的结构，证明了一个缺省理论的外延的模型集合就是对应的布尔环方程组的极大缺省解，从而为确定缺省理论的外延提供了一种简便实用的方法。     

An Interpretation of Default Logic in Minimal Temporal Epistemic Logic

When reasoning about complex domains, where information available is usually only partial, nonmonotonic reasoning can be an important tool. One of the formalisms introduced in this area is Reiter's Default Logic (1980). A characteristic of this formalism is that the applicability of default (inference) rules can only be verified in the future of the reasoning process. We describe an interpretation of default logic in temporal epistemic logic which makes this characteristic explicit. It is shown that this interpretation yields a semantics for default logic based on temporal epistemic models. A comparison between the various semantics for default logic will show the differences and similarities of these approaches and ours.     

Abstract argumentation systems

In this paper, we develop a theory of abstract argumentation systems. An abstract argumentation system is a collection of “defeasible proofs”, called arguments, that is partially ordered by a relation expressing the difference in conclusive force. The prefix “abstract” indicates that the theory is concerned neither with a specification of the underlying language, nor with the development of a subtheory that explains the partial order. An unstructured language, without logical connectives such as negation, makes arguments not (pairwise) inconsistent, but (groupwise) incompatible. Incompatibility and difference in conclusive force cause defeat among arguments. The aim of the theory is to find out which arguments eventually emerge undefeated. These arguments are considered to be in force. Several results are established. The main result is that arguments that are in force are precisely those that are in the limit of a so-called complete argumentation sequence.     

On a rule-based interpretation of default conditionals

In nonmonotonic reasoning, a default conditional α→β has most often been informally interpreted as a defeasible version of a classical conditional, usually the material conditional. There is however an alternative interpretation, in which a default is regarded essentially as a rule, leading from premises to conclusion. In this paper, we present a family of logics, based on this alternative interpretation. A general semantic framework under this rule-based interpretation is developed, and associated proof theories for a family of weak conditional logics is specified. Nonmonotonic inference is easily defined in these logics. Interestingly, the logics presented here are weaker than the commonly-accepted base conditional approach for defeasible reasoning. However, this approach resolves problems that have been associated with previous approaches.      

非单调推理的研究现状

一、引言 早在1959年,McCart~[1]就发现常识和常识推理很难处理,因为在常识推理中当前得出的结论,可能会由于以后新事实的加入而被取消.这就是所谓的“非单调性”。     

Yet some more complexity results for default logic

We identify several new tractable subsets and several new intractable simple cases for reasoning in the propositional version of Reiter's default logic. The majority of our findings are related to brave reasoning. By making some intuitive observations, most classes that we identify can be derived quite easily from some subsets of default logic already known in the literature. Some of the subsets we discuss are subclasses of the so-called “extended logic programs”. All the tractable subsets presented in this paper can be recognized in linear time.     

A Note on the Refinement of Nonmonotonic Knowledge Bases

Refinement of logical theories plays an important role in various application domains, notably in software engineering. This note introduces and studies refinement notions for nonmonotonic knowledge bases in default logic. The paper motivates and proposes refinement concepts, discusses their relationship, and establishes sufficient conditions for refinement. Received 27 July 1999 / Revised 3 November 1999 / Accepted 24 May 2000     

在一类缺省理论中关于证明理论的完备性问题

缺省推理是各种非单调推理系统中最在影响的系统之一。Ｒ。Ｒｅｉｔｅｒ对规范缺省理论作了一系列的研究。他还提出了证明理论，并证明了这一证明理论对于规范缺省理论来说是完备的。Ｗ。Ｅｔｈｅｒｉｎｇｔｏｎ则提出了应用范围更为广泛的有序半规范缺省理论。本文先证明了这类缺省理论具有半单调性等各种性质，然后证明了Ｒ。Ｒｅｉｔｅｒ的证明理论对于有序半规范缺省理论也是完备的。     

On nonmonotonic reasoning with the method of sweeping presumptions

Reasoning almost always occurs in the face of incomplete information. Such reasoning is nonmonotonic in the sense that conclusions drawn may later be withdrawn when additional information is obtained. There is an active literature on the problem of modeling such nonmonotonic reasoning, yet no category of method-let alone a single method-has been broadly accepted as the right approach. This paper introduces a new method, called sweeping presumptions, for modeling nonmonotonic reasoning. The main goal of the paper is to provide an example-driven, nontechnical introduction to the method of sweeping presumptions, and thereby to make it plausible that sweeping presumptions can usefully be applied to the problems of nonmonotonic reasoning. The paper discusses a representative sample of examples that have appeared in the literature on nonmonotonic reasoning, and discusses them from the point of view of sweeping presumptions.     

A characterization theorem for injective model classes axiomatized by general rules

We continue the work in Zhu et al. [Normal conditions for inference relations and injective models, Theoret. Comput. Sci. 309 (2003) 287–311]. A class Ω of strict partial order structures (posets, for short) is said to be axiomatizable if the class of all injective preferential models from Ω may be characterized in terms of general rules. This paper aims to obtain some characteristics of axiomatizable classes. To do this, a monadic second-order frame language is presented. The relationship between ₀-axiomatizability and second-order definability is explored. Then a notion of an admissible set is introduced. Based on this notion, we show that any preferential model, which does not contain any four-node substructure, must be a reduct of some injective model. Furthermore, we furnish a necessary and sufficient condition for the axiomatizability of classes of injective preferential models using general rules. Finally, we show that, in some sense, the class of all posets without any four-node substructure is the largest among axiomatizable classes.     

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.