R-CALCULUS: A Logic of Belief Revision

Broadens your understanding on belief revision, and introduces the new models and theories based on R-calculus Equips readers with theories to handle large and changing data Inspires theoretic computer scientists by showing how R-calculus is developed into a series of complicated theories

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Wei Li, is a Professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China and is a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Prof. Li is mostly engaged in the applied research of Computer Software and Theory, and the Internet, including programming languages, software development, artificial intelligence, and integrated circuit design.

Yuefei Sui, is a Professor in the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. His main interests include knowledge representation, applied logic and the theory of computability.

Inhalt
Introduction.- Preliminaries.- R-calculi for Propositional Logic.- R-calculi for Description Logics.- R-calculi for Modal Logic.- R-calculi for Logic Programming.- R-calculi for First-order Logic.- Nonmonotonicity of R-calculus.- Approximate R-calculus.- An application to Default Logic.- An application to Semantic Networks.