[comp.ai.digest] Seminar - Causal Reasoning as Nonmonotonic Temporal Reasoning

lansky@VENICE.AI.SRI.COM (Amy Lansky) (05/14/87)

          CAUSAL REASONING AS NONMONOTONIC TEMPORAL REASONING

               Yoav Shoham (SHOHAM@SCORE.STANFORD.EDU)
                       Stanford University

                   11:00 AM, MONDAY, May 18
            SRI International, Building E, Room EJ228


This talk will address the following topics:

  * A definition of the problems of Qualification and Extended Prediction, 
    and their relation to the Frame Problem.

  * An outline of a semantical approach to nonmonotonic logics.

  * A definition of a specific nonmonotonic epistemic logic, the logic
    of Chronological Ignorance, and a demonstration of its utility in 
    solving the two problems mentioned above.

I will argue that the above analysis explains the meaning of causation,
and its central role in commonsense reasoning. 


VISITORS:  Please arrive 5 minutes early so that you can be escorted up
from the E-building receptionist's desk.  Thanks!