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What is The Event Calculus

Chapter 18
Handbook of Research on Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments: Trends and Perspectives
A causal theory of events, times and time-dependent properties formalized in Horn clause logic augmented with some form of negation.
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Logic-Based Approaches to Intention Recognition
Fariba Sadri (Imperial College London, UK)
Copyright: © 2011 |Pages: 30
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61692-857-5.ch018
Abstract
In this chapter we discuss intention recognition in general, and the use of logic-based formalisms, and deduction and abduction in particular. We consider the relationship between causal theories used for planning and the knowledge representation and reasoning used for intention recognition. We look at the challenges and the issues, and we explore eight case studies.
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