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Circumscription—A form of non-monotonic reasoning
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“It turned out to be too dif fi cult to specify all the relevant rules for a given situation (McCarthy 1980), and the legal domain was no exception (Leith 2016).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- McCarthy, J.
- Affiliations
- Stanford University (US)
- Corresponding author
- McCarthy, John
- ORCID
- McCarthy, John
- Venue
- Artificial Intelligence
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1980-04
- Volume
- 13
- Issue
- 1-2
- Pages
- 27-39
- ISSN
- 0004-3702 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2945259913
- Cited by
- 2,017
- References
- 12
- Citations by year
- 2026: 21 · 2025: 19 · 2024: 17 · 2023: 19 · 2022: 17 · 2021: 22 · 2020: 29 · 2019: 30 · 2018: 38 · 2017: 28 · 2016: 32 · 2015: 41 · 2014: 68 · 2013: 46 · 2012: 55
- FWCI
- 10.97
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Artificial Intelligence (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › AI-based Problem Solving and Planning
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation
- Keywords
- circumscription, nonmonotonic reasoning, default reasoning, closed world assumption
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