{"product_id":"9783540253327","title":"Lecture Notes in Computer Science: International Workshop, WCII 2002, Hagen, Germany, May 13-15, 2002, Revised Selected Papers","description":"\u003ch1\u003eLecture Notes in Computer Science: International Workshop, WCII 2002, Hagen, Germany, May 13-15, 2002, Revised Selected Papers\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eKern-Isberner, Gabriele; Rödder, Wilhelm; Kulmann, Friedhelm\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003eConditionals are fascinating and versatile objects of knowledge representation. On the one hand, they may express rules in a very general sense, representing, for example, plausible relationships, physical laws, and social norms. On the other hand, as default rules or general implications, they constitute a basic tool for reasoning, even in the presence of uncertainty. In this sense, conditionals are intimately connected both to information and inference. Due to their non-Boolean nature, however, conditionals are not easily dealt with. They are not simply true or false — rather, a conditional “if A then B” provides a context, A, for B to be plausible (or true) and must not be confused with “A entails B” or with the material implication “not A or B.” This ill- trates how conditionals represent information, understood in its strict sense as reduction of uncertainty. To learn that, in the context A, the proposition B is plausible, may reduce uncertainty about B and hence is information. The ab- ity to predict such conditioned propositions is knowledge and as such (earlier) acquired information. The ?rst work on conditional objects dates back to Boole in the 19th c- tury, and the interest in conditionals was revived in the second half of the 20th century, when the emerging Arti?cial Intelligence made claims for appropriate formaltoolstohandle“generalizedrules.”Sincethen,conditionalshavebeenthe topic of countless publications, each emphasizing their relevance for knowledge representation, plausible reasoning, nonmonotonic inference, and belief revision.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Springer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2005-05-18\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9783540253327\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/b107184\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 235cm x155cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 219\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer Berlin Heidelberg","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45370028753036,"sku":"9783540253327","price":49.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783540253327.jpg?v=1773968899","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9783540253327","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}