How Long to Read Default Reasoning

How Long Does it Take to Read Default Reasoning?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 43 minutes to read Default Reasoning by Hector Geffner

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

a powerful default-handling system that yields an intuitive behavior in several domains of interest in AI, including inheritance hierarchies, reasoning about change, general logic programs, and abductive reasoning Defaults in commonsense reasoning permit the generation of useful predictions in the absence of complete information. However, attempts to represent and reason with defaults in Al run into the problem of spurious arguments, arguments that rely on acceptable defaults but which support unacceptable conclusions. Geffner addresses this problem by analyzing the causal and conditional aspects of default, establishing clear theoretical limits on the capabilities of probabilistic approaches. He provides new insights into the nature of defaults, and new methods of processing databases containing default expressions. The result is a powerful default-handling system that yields an intuitive behavior in several domains of interest in AI, including inheritance hierarchies, reasoning about change, general logic programs, and abductive reasoning. Geffner develops an axiomatic system based on a probabilistic and a model-theoretic semantics in which defaults are regarded as assertions whose truth or likelihood is bound to a particular context. He contrasts these conditional interpretations with standard extensional interpretations, and notes that while the former properly resolve arguments of different "specificity," the latter properly account for arguments involving "independence" assumptions. Geffner then combines the best features of both interpretations into a more powerful account of default reasoning which he calls conditional entailment. Conditional entailment is based on an ordering of defaults extracted from the knowledge base and can be computed by an elegant argument system, in which arguments of different strength interact, and strongest arguments "win." This system can be extended with a causal operator and suitable coherence considerations to provide an adequate solution to many problems involving causation and abduction. Contents Introduction * A System of Defeasible Inference Based on Probabilities * High Probabilities and Preferential Structures * Irrelevance and Prioritized Preferential Structures * The Causal Dimension: Evidence vs * Explanation * Conclusions * Proofs

How long is Default Reasoning?

Default Reasoning by Hector Geffner is 222 pages long, and a total of 55,944 words.

This makes it 75% the length of the average book. It also has 68% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Default Reasoning Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 5 minutes to read Default Reasoning aloud.

What Reading Level is Default Reasoning?

Default Reasoning is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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