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An event calculus production rule system for reasoning in dynamic and uncertain domains

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 March 2016

THEODORE PATKOS ,
DIMITRIS PLEXOUSAKIS ,
ABDELGHANI CHIBANI  and
YACINE AMIRAT
THEODORE PATKOS
Affiliation:
Information Systems Laboratory, Institute of Computer Science, FO.R.T.H., Heraklion, Crete, Greece (e-mail: patkos@ics.forth.gr, dp@ics.forth.gr)
DIMITRIS PLEXOUSAKIS
Affiliation:
Information Systems Laboratory, Institute of Computer Science, FO.R.T.H., Heraklion, Crete, Greece (e-mail: patkos@ics.forth.gr, dp@ics.forth.gr)
ABDELGHANI CHIBANI
Affiliation:
Lissi Laboratory, University of Paris-Est Créteil (UPEC), Vitry-sur-Seine, France (e-mail: chibani@u-pec.fr, amirat@u-pec.fr)
YACINE AMIRAT
Affiliation:
Lissi Laboratory, University of Paris-Est Créteil (UPEC), Vitry-sur-Seine, France (e-mail: chibani@u-pec.fr, amirat@u-pec.fr)
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Abstract

Action languages have emerged as an important field of knowledge representation for reasoning about change and causality in dynamic domains. This paper presents Cerbere, a production system designed to perform online causal, temporal and epistemic reasoning based on the Event Calculus. The framework implements the declarative semantics of the underlying logic theories in a forward-chaining rule-based reasoning system, coupling the high expressiveness of its formalisms with the efficiency of rule-based systems. To illustrate its applicability, we present both the modeling of benchmark problems in the field, as well as its utilization in the challenging domain of smart spaces. A hybrid framework that combines logic-based with probabilistic reasoning has been developed, that aims to accommodate activity recognition and monitoring tasks in smart spaces.

Keywords

Event calculusRule-based reasoningSmart environments
Type
Regular Papers
Information
Theory and Practice of Logic Programming , Volume 16 , Special Issue 3: Special Issue on the International Web Rule Symposia 2012-2014 , May 2016 , pp. 325 - 352
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2016 

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