Logical Foundations for Rule-Based Systems

The book presents logical foundations for rule-based systems, as seen by the Author. An attempt has been made to provide an in-depth discussion of logical and other aspects of such systems, including languages for knowledge representation, inference mecha

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Studies in Computational Intelligence, Volume 11 Editor-in-chief Prof. Janusz Kacprzyk Systems Research Institute Polish Academy of Sciences ul. Newelska 6 01-447 Warsaw Poland E-mail: [email protected] Further volumes of this series can be found on our homepage: springer.com Vol. 1. Tetsuya Hoya Artificial Mind System – Kernel Memory Approach, 2005 ISBN 3-540-26072-2 Vol. 2. Saman K. Halgamuge, Lipo Wang (Eds.) Computational Intelligence for Modelling and Prediction, 2005 ISBN 3-540-26071-4 Vol. 3. Boz˙ ena Kostek Perception-Based Data Processing in Acoustics, 2005 ISBN 3-540-25729-2 Vol. 4. Saman K. Halgamuge, Lipo Wang (Eds.) Classification and Clustering for Knowledge Discovery, 2005 ISBN 3-540-26073-0 Vol. 5. Da Ruan, Guoqing Chen, Etienne E. Kerre, Geert Wets (Eds.) Intelligent Data Mining, 2005 ISBN 3-540-26256-3 Vol. 6. Tsau Young Lin, Setsuo Ohsuga, Churn-Jung Liau, Xiaohua Hu, Shusaku Tsumoto (Eds.) Foundations of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 2005 ISBN 3-540-26257-1

Vol. 7. Bruno Apolloni, Ashish Ghosh, Ferda Alpaslan, Lakhmi C. Jain, Srikanta Patnaik (Eds.) Machine Learning and Robot Perception, 2005 ISBN 3-540-26549-X Vol. 8. Srikanta Patnaik, Lakhmi C. Jain, Spyros G. Tzafestas, Germano Resconi, Amit Konar (Eds.) Innovations in Robot Mobility and Control, 2005 ISBN 3-540-26892-8 Vol. 9. Tsau Young Lin, Setsuo Ohsuga, Churn-Jung Liau, Xiaohua Hu (Eds.) Foundations and Novel Approaches in Data Mining, 2005 ISBN 3-540-28315-3 Vol. 10. Andrzej P. Wierzbicki, Yoshiteru Nakamori Creative Space, 2005 ISBN 3-540-28458-3 Vol. 11. Antoni Ligêza Logical Foundations for Rule-Based Systems, 2006 ISBN 3-540-29117-2

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Professor Antoni Ligêza Institute of Automatics AGH - University of Science and Technology Al. Mickiewicza 30 30-059 Cracow Poland e-mail: [email protected]

Library of Congress Control Number: 2005932569 Originally published in Poland by AGH University of Science and Technology Press, Kraków, Poland

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