Inconsistency Tolerance
Inconsistency arises in many areas in advanced computing. Often inconsistency is unwanted, for example in the specification for a plan or in sensor fusion in robotics; however, sometimes inconsistency is useful. Whether inconsistency is unwanted or useful
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Editorial Board David Hutchison Lancaster University, UK Takeo Kanade Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Josef Kittler University of Surrey, Guildford, UK Jon M. Kleinberg Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Friedemann Mattern ETH Zurich, Switzerland John C. Mitchell Stanford University, CA, USA Moni Naor Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Oscar Nierstrasz University of Bern, Switzerland C. Pandu Rangan Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India Bernhard Steffen University of Dortmund, Germany Madhu Sudan Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA Demetri Terzopoulos New York University, NY, USA Doug Tygar University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Moshe Y. Vardi Rice University, Houston, TX, USA Gerhard Weikum Max-Planck Institute of Computer Science, Saarbruecken, Germany
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Leopoldo Bertossi Anthony Hunter Torsten Schaub (Eds.)
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Volume Editors Leopoldo Bertossi Carleton University, School of Computer Science Herzberg Building, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Canada K1S 5B6 E-mail: [email protected] Anthony Hunter University College London, Department of Computer Science Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK E-mail: [email protected] Torsten Schaub Universität Potsdam, Institut für Informatik August-Bebel-Str. 89,14482 Potsdam, Germany E-mail: [email protected]
Library of Congress Control Number: 2004117075 CR Subject Classification (1998): H.2, D.2, F.3, F.4 ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 3-540-24260-0 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, re-use of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Violations are liable to prosecution under the German Copyright Law. Springer is a part of Springer Science+Business Media springeronline.com © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2004 Printed in Germany Typesetting: Camera-ready by author, data conversion by Scientific Publishing Services, Chennai, India Printed on acid-free paper SPIN: 11373957 06/3142 543210
Preface
The idea for this book arose after we had organized a meeting on inconsistency tolerance at Dagstuhl in Germany in the summer of 2003. We approached a number of eminent researchers in the field to contribute to the first book devoted to the subject. The net result is a collection of papers that provide an exciting coverage of some of the key aspects of the field. All the chapters in the collection were anonymously reviewed, chapters by editors of the book being submitted for anonymous review by the other editors. Reviewing was undertaken by other authors involved in the project and by external reviewers. We are particularly grateful to th
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