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Nonmonotonic and uncertain reasoning are both aiming at making optimal use of available information even if it is neither complete nor certain. Whereas the former is influenced mainly by symbolic or qualitative logics, the latter often uses numbers such as probabilities or possibilities to specify degrees of uncertainty. Many approaches have been developed in Artificial Intelligence in order to formalize reasoning under uncertainty, as well as reasoning under incomplete information with rules having potential exceptions. For intelligent agents living in a complex environment, both symbolic and numerical frameworks provide interesting and powerful approaches to help them realizing their intentions and goals in a particular effective and flexible way. This issue collects fully revised and extended versions of four contributions initially presented at the special session on Theory of NMR and Uncertainty, held in Lake District, England, on June 1st, 2006, in the framework of the 11th International Workshop on Nonmonotonic Reasoning (NMR '2006). It covers various facets of recent research at the junction between nonmonotonic reasoning and the symbolic and numerical handling of uncertain

Author

Salem Benferhat; Gabriele Kern-Isberner

Publisher

Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0888-613X)

Published

2008

Language

EN