Situation Theory and Its Applications, Volume
3edited by Peter Aczel, David J. Israel, Yasuhiro Katagiri, and Stanley Peters
These essays evolved from research presented at the Third International Conference on situation theory and its applications. Situation Theory is the result of an interdisciplinary effort to create a full-fledged theory of information. Created by scholars and scientists from cognitive science, computer science and AI, linguistics, logic, philosophy, and mathematics, it aims to provide a common set of tools for the analysis of phenomena from all of these fields. The research presented in this volume reflects a growing international and interdisciplinary activity of importance to many fields concerned with the information.
Peter Aczel is professor of
mathematical logic and computer logic at Manchester
University. David Israel is a senior
computer scientist in the Artificial Intelligence Center at SRI
International and a consulting professor in the Philosophy Department at
Stanford University. Yasuhiro Katagiri
is a research scientist in the Information Science Research Laboratory
of NTT Basic Research Laboratories. Stanley Peters is professor of linguistics and symbolic systems at Stanford University.
- Contributors
- Preface
- Part I Situation Theory
- 1 Constraints, Channels, and the Flow of Information
Jon Barwise
- 2 Extended Kamp Notation: A Graphical Notation for Situation Theory
Jon Barwise and Robin Cooper
- 3 States of Affairs Without Parameters
Mark Crimmins
- Part II Logical Applications
- 4 Labelled Deductive Systems and Situation Theory
D. M. Gabbay
- 5 Events and Processes in Situation Semantics
Michael Georgeff, David Morley, and Anad Rao
- 6 Nonomonotonic Projection, Causation, and Induction
Robert C. Koons
- 7 Modal Situation Theory
Stephen M. Schulz
- Part III Linguistic Applications
- 8 Generalized Quantifiers and Resource Situations
Robin Cooper
- 9 Situation Theory and Cooperative Action
Keith Devlin and Duska Rosenberg
- 10 Propositional and Non-Propositional Attitudes
Jonathan Ginzburg
- 11 Episodic Logic: A Situational Logic for Natural Language Processing
Chung Hee Hwang and Lenhart K. Shubert
- 12 A Situation-Theoretic Formalization of Definite Description Interpretation in Plan Elaboration Dialogues
Massimo Poesio
- 13 A Situation-Theorectic Representation of Text Meaning: Anaphora, Quantification, and Negation
Dag Westerståhl, Björn Haglund, and Torbjörn Lager
- Name Index
- Subject Index
10/15/93
ISBN (Paperback): 1881526089 (9781881526087)
ISBN (Cloth): 1881526097 (9781881526094)
ISBN (Electronic): 1575867575 (9781575867571)
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