Title
Prolegomena to Concise Theories of Action
Abstract
A new methodology for developing theories of action has recently emerged which provides means for formally evaluating the correctness of such theories. Yet, for a theory of action to qualify as a solution to the frame problem, not only does it need to produce correct inferences, but moreover, it needs to derive these inferences from a concise representation of the domain at hand. The new methodology however offers no means for assessing conciseness. Such a formal account of conciseness is developed in this paper. Combined with the existing criterion for correctness, our account of conciseness offers a framework where proposed solutions to the frame problem can be formally evaluated.
Year
DOI
Venue
2001
10.1023/A:1010516501232
Studia Logica
Keywords
Field
DocType
Reasoning about Action,Frame Problem,Commonsense Reasoning
Computer science,Commonsense reasoning,Correctness,Computational linguistics,Action theory (philosophy),Algorithm,Artificial intelligence,Frame problem
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
67
3
1572-8730
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.39
8
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Pavlos Peppas126531.74
Costas D. Koutras26910.06
Mary-anne Williams3953128.61