The logic of dynamic systems

  • Authors:
  • Michael Thielscher

  • Affiliations:
  • Intellektik, Informatik, TH Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

  • Venue:
  • IJCAI'95 Proceedings of the 14th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
  • Year:
  • 1995

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Abstract

A formal theory of actions and change in dynamic systems is presented. Our formalism is based on the paradigm that state transitions in a system naturally occur while time passes by; one or more agents have the possibility to direct the development of the system by executing actions. Our theory covers concurrency of actions and events and includes a natural way to express delayed effects and nondeterminism. A uniform semantics for specifications of dynamic systems is developed, which enables us to express solutions to problems like temporal projection, planning and postdiction in terms of logical entailment.