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A Temporal Logic for Reasoning about Processes and Plans*
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Much previous work in artificial intelligence has neglected representing time in all its complexity. In particular, it has neglected continuous change and the indeterminacy of the future. To rectify this, I have developed a first‐order temporal logic, in which it is possible to name and prove things about facts, events, plans, and world histories. In particular, the logic provides analyses of causality, continuous change in quantities, the persistence of facts (the frame problem), and the relationship between tasks and actions. It may be possible to implement a temporal‐inference machine based on this logic, which keeps track of several “maps” of a time line, one per possible history.
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Metadata
- Authors
- McDermott, D.
- Venue
- Cognitive Science
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 1982-04
- Volume
- 6
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 101-155
- ISSN
- 0364-0213 (ISSN-L)
- 1551-6709
- OpenAlex
- W3032363870
- Cited by
- 493
- References
- 2
- FWCI
- 14.65
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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