The truth about defaults

  • Authors:
  • Hector J. Levesque;Gerhard Lakemeyer

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada;Dept. of Computer Science, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Correct Reasoning
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

It is a great honour and a pleasure to be able to offer this paper in celebration of Vladimir Lifschitz's sixty-fifth birthday. His work has been an inspiration to both of us since we first started reading his papers in the 1980s. At a time when many papers and presentations in AI were either very abstract on the one hand, or tied to specific systems on the other, Vladimir has consistently found a sweet spot that emphasized clarity and rigour, while maintaining a strong connection to AI practice. His work, in a nutshell, has been a model of how to do AI research, of great value to new students and to older researchers like us. So this is our chance to say thank you, Vladimir, and happy birthday!