Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence Research

This volume contains the invited and submitted contributions to FAIR '91, the first of an intended series of workshops on issues in the theoretical foundations of artificial intelligence. FAIR '91 was held in Czechoslovakia in September 1991.

Inhalt
User-oriented theorem proving with the ATINF graphic proof editor.- A modal analysis of possibility theory.- Making inconsistency respectable: A logical framework for inconsistency in reasoning, part I A position paper.- Relational proof systems for some AI logics.- Formal grammars and cognitive architectures.- Efficient simulations of nondeterministic computations and their speed-up by the ring of cooperating machines.- A semantic characterization of disjunctive relations.- Execution of defeasible temporal clauses for building preferred models.- On the phenomenon of flattening flexible prediction concept hierarchy.- Possibilistic logic as a logical framework for min-max discrete optimisation problems and prioritized constraints.- An approach to data-driven learning.- Extending abduction from propositional to first-order logic.- Building in equational theories into the connection method.- Logical fiberings and polycontextural systems.- Automated deduction with associative commutative operators.- Towards a lattice of knowledge representation systems.- Inconsistencies handling: nonmonotonic and paraconsistent reasoning.- An approach to structural synthesis of data processing programs.- Negation as failure and intuitionistic three-valued logic.- Symbolic Computation and Artificial Intelligence.