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A Clash of Intuitions: The Current State of Nonmonotonic Multiple Inheritance Systems

@inproceedings{Touretzky1987ACO,
  title={A Clash of Intuitions: The Current State of Nonmonotonic Multiple Inheritance Systems},
  author={D. Touretzky and J. Horty and R. Thomason},
  booktitle={IJCAI},
  year={1987}
}

• D. Touretzky, J. Horty, R. Thomason
• Published in IJCAI 1987
• Mathematics, Computer Science

Early attempts at combining multiple inheritance with nonmonotonic reasoning were based on straight forward extensions of tree-structured inheritance systems, and were theoretically unsound. In The Mathematics of Inheritance Systems, or TMOIS, Touretzky described two problems these systems cannot handle: reasoning in the presence of true but redundant assertions, and coping with ambiguity. TMOIS provided a definition and analysis of a theoretically sound multiple inheritance system, accompanied… Expand

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