Three Short Essays on Decisions, Reasons, and Logics,

Abstract

This report collects together three short, survey-level essays introducing related approaches to decision-making, reasoning, and logic. The first essay, Making Difficult Decisions, was read to the Stanford Computer Forum on February 5, 1981. The following two essays, Dependencies and Assumptions (written with Johan de Kleer) and Non-Deductive Reasoning and Non-Monotonic Logics, are versions of articles to appear in the Handbook of Artificial Intelligence (A. Barr, P. Cohen and E. Feigenbaum, eds.). (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1981
Accession Number
ADA108144

Entities

People

  • Jon Doyle

Organizations

  • Stanford University

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Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • California
  • Circuit Analysis
  • Computer Science
  • Computer-Aided Design
  • Computers
  • Databases
  • Decision Theory
  • Energy Production
  • Formal Languages
  • Language
  • Logic
  • Mathematics
  • Organizational Structure
  • Reasoning
  • Set Theory
  • Theorems

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  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Military History

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  • AI & ML