Editorial: Defeasible and Ampliative Reasoning

Richard Booth (1) , Giovanni Casini (2) , Szymon Klarman (3) , Gilles Richard (4, 5) , Ivan Varzinczak (6)

1 Cardiff University
2 CSC - Computer Science and Communications Research Unit [Luxembourg]
3 EPISTEMIK - Knowledge Engineering
4 IRIT-ADRIA - Argumentation, Décision, Raisonnement, Incertitude et Apprentissage
5 UT3 - Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier
6 CRIL - Centre de Recherche en Informatique de Lens

Classical reasoning is not flexible enough when directly applied to the formalisation of certain nuances of decision making as done by humans. These involve different kinds of reasoning such as reasoning with uncertainty, exceptions, similarity, vagueness, incomplete or contradictory information and many others.

Domains: Computer Science [cs]; Artificial Intelligence [cs.AI]

Richard Booth, Giovanni Casini, Szymon Klarman, Gilles Richard, Ivan Varzinczak. Editorial: Defeasible and Ampliative Reasoning. International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, 2019, Special issue: SI: Defeasible and Ampliative Reasoning, 112 (C), pp.1-3. ⟨10.1016/j.ijar.2019.05.009⟩. ⟨hal-03673911⟩