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Raymond Reiter

Canadian computer scientist and logician (1939-2002)

Raymond Reiter FRSC (/ˈrtər/; June 12, 1939 , September 16, 2002) was a Canadian computer scientist and logician. He was one of the founders of the field of non-monotonic reasoning with his work on default logic, model-based diagnosis, closed-world reasoning, and truth maintenance systems. He also contributed to the situation calculus.

01Awards and honors

02Publications

  • R. Reiter (1978). On closed world data bases. In H. Gallaire and J. Minker, editors, Logic and Data Bases, pages 119-140. Plenum., New York.
  • R. Reiter (1980). A logic for default reasoning. Artificial Intelligence, 13:81-132.
  • R. Reiter (1987). A theory of diagnosis from first principles. Artificial Intelligence, 32:57-95.
  • R. Reiter (1991). The frame problem in the situation calculus: a simple solution (sometimes) and a completeness result for goal regression. In Vladimir Lifschitz, editor, Artificial Intelligence and Mathematical Theory of Computation: Papers in Honor of John McCarthy, pages 359-380. Academic Press, New York.
  • R. Reiter (2001) Knowledge in Action: Logical Foundations for Specifying and Implementing Dynamical Systems (448 pp.). The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England.
  • R. Reiter and J. de Kleer (1987). Foundations of assumption-based truth maintenance systems: Preliminary report. In Proceedings of the Sixth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'87), pages 183-188.
  • H. Levesque, F. Pirri, and R. Reiter (1998). Foundations for the situation calculus Electronic Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, 2(3-4):159-178.
  • F. Pirri and R. Reiter (1999). Some contributions to the metatheory of the Situation Calculus Journal of the ACM, 46(3):325-361. doi:10.1145/316542.316545
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