Representing and reasoning about program in situation calculus

Bo Yang; Ming-yi Zhang; Mao-nian Wu; Gang Xie

doi:10.1117/12.920881

13 January 2012 Representing and reasoning about program in situation calculus

Bo Yang, Ming-yi Zhang, Mao-nian Wu, Gang Xie

Proceedings Volume 8350, Fourth International Conference on Machine Vision (ICMV 2011): Computer Vision and Image Analysis; Pattern Recognition and Basic Technologies; 835034 (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.920881
Event: Fourth International Conference on Machine Vision (ICMV 11), 2011, Singapore, Singapore

Abstract

Situation calculus is an expressive tool for modeling dynamical system in artificial intelligence, changes in a dynamical world is represented naturally by the notions of action, situation and fluent in situation calculus. Program can be viewed as a discrete dynamical system, so it is possible to model program with situation calculus. To model program written in a smaller core programming language CL, notion of fluent is expanded for representing value of expression. Together with some functions returning concerned objects from expressions, a basic action theory of CL programming is constructed. Under such a theory, some properties of program, such as correctness and termination can be reasoned about.

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Bo Yang, Ming-yi Zhang, Mao-nian Wu, and Gang Xie "Representing and reasoning about program in situation calculus", Proc. SPIE 8350, Fourth International Conference on Machine Vision (ICMV 2011): Computer Vision and Image Analysis; Pattern Recognition and Basic Technologies, 835034 (13 January 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.920881

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