Hector Levesque
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Hector Joseph Levesque is a Canadian academic and researcher in artificial intelligence. His research concerns incorporating commonsense reasoning in intelligent systems and he initiated the Winograd Schemas Challenge.
Hector Levesque's Published Works
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Published Works
- Intention is Choice with Commitment (1987) (2331)
- A New Method for Solving Hard Satisfiability Problems (1992) (1490)
- GOLOG: A Logic Programming Language for Dynamic Domains (1997) (1300)
- Hard and Easy Distributions of SAT Problems (1992) (1126)
- The Winograd Schema Challenge (2011) (887)
- Readings in Knowledge Representation (1985) (806)
- A Logic of Implicit and Explicit Belief (1984) (711)
- On Acting Together (1990) (697)
- ConGolog, a concurrent programming language based on the situation calculus (2000) (610)
- Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (2004) (588)
- The Tractability of Subsumption in Frame-Based Description Languages (1984) (461)
- All I Know: A Study in Autoepistemic Logic (1990) (442)
- Krypton: A Functional Approach to Knowledge Representation (1983) (420)
- Foundations of a Functional Approach to Knowledge Representation (1984) (416)
- Expressiveness and tractability in knowledge representation and reasoning 1 (1987) (387)
- Communicative Actions for Artificial Agents (1997) (351)
- Rational interaction as the basis for communication (2003) (351)
- The Frame Problem and Knowledge-Producing Actions (1993) (335)
- Knowledge, action, and the frame problem (2003) (317)
- Foundations for the Situation Calculus (1998) (310)
- Generating Hard Satisfiability Problems (1996) (308)
- What Is Planning in the Presence of Sensing? (1996) (291)
- An Essential Hybrid Reasoning System: Knowledge and Symbol Level Accounts of KRYPTON (1985) (286)
- Making Believers out of Computers (1986) (269)
- Abductive and Default Reasoning: A Computational Core (1990) (233)
- Logic and the complexity of reasoning (1988) (222)
- The logic of knowledge bases (2000) (215)
- A Knowledge-Level Account of Abduction (1989) (210)
- An overview of Knowledge Representation (1983) (206)
- Foundations of a Logical Approach to Agent Programming (1995) (177)
- The adaptive agent architecture: achieving fault-tolerance using persistent broker teams (2000) (157)
- An Incremental Interpreter for High-Level Programs with Sensing (1999) (147)
- A Logical Approach to High-Level Robot Programming A Progress Report* (1994) (132)
- Cognitive Robotics (2008) (126)
- Reasoning about Concurrent Execution Prioritized Interrupts, and Exogenous Actions in the Situation Calculus (1997) (123)
- Speech Acts and Rationality (1985) (122)
- Confirmations and Joint Action (1991) (118)
- On the Semantics of Deliberation in IndiGolog — from Theory to Implementation (2002) (115)
- Reasoning about Noisy Sensors (and Effectors) in the Situation Calculus (1995) (113)
- Persistence, Intention, and Commitment (2003) (110)
- Reasoning about Noisy Sensors in the Situation Calculus (1995) (110)
- Hard problems for simple default logics (1992) (106)
- IndiGolog: A High-Level Programming Language for Embedded Reasoning Agents (2009) (106)
- Performatives in a Rationally Based Speech Act Theory (1990) (103)
- Iterated belief change in the situation calculus (2000) (102)
- Planning with Loops (2005) (100)
- Reasoning about Noisy Sensors and Effectors in the Situation Calculus (1999) (99)
- The Tractability of Path-Based Inheritance (1989) (99)
- The cognitive agents specification language and verification environment for multiagent systems (2002) (96)
- A PROCEDURAL SEMANTICS FOR SEMANTIC NETWORKS (1979) (93)
- On our best behaviour (2014) (92)
- Competence in Knowledge Representation (1982) (80)
- Ability and Knowing How in the Situation Calculus (2000) (75)
- Common Sense, the Turing Test, and the Quest for Real AI (2017) (72)
- Tractable Reasoning with Incomplete First-Order Knowledge in Dynamic Systems with Context-Dependent Actions (2005) (71)
- A formal treatment of incomplete knowledge bases (1981) (71)
- Semantics of Agent Communication Languages for Group Interaction (2000) (69)
- A Completeness Result for Reasoning with Incomplete First-Order Knowledge Bases (1998) (68)
- AOL: A logic of Acting, Sensing, Knowing, and Only Knowing (1998) (68)
- KRYPTON: Integrating Terminology and Assertion (1983) (66)
- The Logic of Incomplete Knowledge Bases (1982) (61)
- Projection Using Regression and Sensors (1999) (55)
- Situations, Si! Situation Terms, No! (2004) (54)
- Indexical Knowledge and Robot Action - A Logical Account (1995) (49)
- A Situation Calculus Approach to Modeling and Programming Agents (1999) (47)
- The consistency of syntactical treatments of knowledge (1986) (46)
- Support Set Selection for Abductive and Default Reasoning (1996) (44)
- A semantic characterization of a useful fragment of the situation calculus with knowledge (2011) (44)
- Knowledge Equivalence in Combined Action Theories (2002) (43)
- Preliminaries to a collaborative model of dialogue (1994) (43)
- The Interaction with Incomplete Knowledge Bases: A Formal Treatment (1981) (42)
- What Robots Can Do: Robot Programs and Effective Achievability (1998) (40)
- Chapter 14 – Actions (2004) (39)
- Incremental execution of guarded theories (2001) (39)
- Some Pitfalls for Experimenters with Random SAT (1996) (39)
- Legolog : Inexpensive Experiments in Cognitive Robotics (2000) (39)
- Goal Change (2005) (39)
- Progression of Situation Calculus Action Theories with Incomplete Information (2007) (36)
- A Logic of Limited Belief for Reasoning with Disjunctive Information (2004) (36)
- What Makes a Knowledge Base Knowledgeable? A View of Databases from the Knowledge Level (1984) (36)
- All I Know: An Abridged Report (1987) (33)
- Semantics for a useful fragment of the situation calculus (2005) (33)
- On the Progression of Situation Calculus Basic Action Theories: Resolving a 10-year-old Conjecture (2008) (32)
- Nonmonotonic reasoning in the framework of situation calculus (1992) (32)
- A Correctness Result for Reasoning about One-Dimensional Planning Problems (2010) (32)
- Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (1991) (32)
- The Language of First-Order Logic (2004) (31)
- On the Limits of Planning over Belief States under Strict Uncertainty (2006) (30)
- Communicative Actions for Artiicial Agents (1995) (30)
- Specifying Communicative Multi-Agent Systems (Invited Paper) (1997) (29)
- Knowledge representation (1991) (28)
- The Knowledge Level of a KBMS (1986) (26)
- Generating Hard Satis ability Problems ? (1995) (26)
- A Tractability Result for Reasoning with Incomplete First-Order Knowledge Bases (2003) (26)
- Specifying communicative multi-agent systems (1998) (25)
- Foundations for Generalized Planning in Unbounded Stochastic Domains (2016) (25)
- ALLEGRO: Belief-Based Programming in Stochastic Dynamical Domains (2015) (24)
- First-Order Strong Progression for Local-Effect Basic Action Theories (2008) (24)
- A Tractable Knowledge Representation Service with Full Introspection (1988) (24)
- A Semantical Account of Progression in the Presence of Defaults (2009) (24)
- Towards a logical theory of coordination and joint ability (2007) (23)
- Only-Knowing: Taking It Beyond Autoepistemic Reasoning (2005) (23)
- The consistency of syntactical treatments of knowledge 1 (How to compile quantificational modal logics into classical FOL) (1988) (23)
- The Complexity of Path-Based Defeasible Inheritance (1993) (22)
- Reasoning about Continuous Uncertainty in the Situation Calculus (2013) (22)
- Forgetting in Action (2014) (21)
- Logical Foundations for Cognitive Agents (1999) (20)
- Belief Revision with Sensing and Fallible Actions (2012) (20)
- Reasoning about discrete and continuous noisy sensors and effectors in dynamical systems (2018) (19)
- Goals and Rational Action in the Situation Calculus--- A Preliminary Report (1995) (19)
- Reasoning about Probabilities in Dynamic Systems using Goal Regression (2013) (18)
- Knowledge Level Interfaces to Information Systems (1986) (18)
- Decidable Reasoning in a Fragment of the Epistemic Situation Calculus (2014) (18)
- PREGO: An Action Language for Belief-Based Cognitive Robotics in Continuous Domains (2014) (17)
- A concurrent programming language based on the situation calculus: Language and implementation (1999) (17)
- Tractable Reasoning in First-Order Knowledge Bases with Disjunctive Information (2005) (17)
- An Embedding of ConGolog in 3APL (2000) (17)
- Tales from the Far Side of KRYPTON (1986) (16)
- Proceedings of the first international conference on Principles of knowledge representation and reasoning (1989) (16)
- Thinking as Computation: A First Course (2012) (16)
- Towards an Axiom System for Default Logic (2006) (15)
- Planning with Loops: Some New Results (2009) (15)
- Embedding decision-analytic control in a learning architecture (1992) (15)
- Controlling Autonomous Robots with GOLOG (1997) (14)
- Is it enough to get the behaviour right (2009) (14)
- An Overview of a Procedural Approach to Semantic Networks (1977) (13)
- How to Progress Beliefs in Continuous Domains (2014) (13)
- A View Of Knowledge Representation (1986) (13)
- Indexical Knowledge in Robot Plans (1990) (12)
- Only-Knowing Meets Nonmonotonic Modal Logic (2012) (11)
- An Experiment in Using Golog to Build a Personal Banking Assistant (1996) (11)
- The Cognitive Agents Specification Language and Verification Environment (2010) (10)
- A First-Order Logic of Probability and Only Knowing in Unbounded Domains (2016) (10)
- Efficient Reasoning in Proper Knowledge Bases with Unknown Individuals (2011) (10)
- A Formal Account of Nondeterministic and Failed Actions (2013) (10)
- On ability to autonomously execute agent programs with sensing (2004) (10)
- A Logical Theory of Localization (2016) (9)
- Decidable Reasoning in a Logic of Limited Belief with Introspection and Unknown Individuals (2013) (9)
- How to progress a database III (2013) (9)
- Towards Tractable Inference for Resource-Bounded Agents (2015) (9)
- Incompleteness in knowledge bases (1981) (8)
- Robot location estimation in the situation calculus (2014) (8)
- Knowledge, Action, and Ability in the Situation Calculus (1994) (8)
- epsilon-Transformation: Exploiting Phase Transitions to Solve Combinatorial Optimization Problems (1994) (8)
- Taking Issue: Guest Editor's introduction 1 (1987) (8)
- Query Evaluation and Progression in AOL Knowledge Bases (1999) (7)
- Team Formation (2018) (7)
- Three-valued nonmonotonic formalisms and semantics of logic programs (1992) (7)
- Is It Enough to Get the Behavior Right? (2009) (7)
- Progressing basic action theories with non-local effect actions (2009) (6)
- Introduction to the Special Volume on Knowledge Representation (1991) (5)
- Object-Oriented Representation (2004) (5)
- Two approaches to efficient open-world reasoning (2000) (5)
- The Situation Calculus with Sensing and Indexical Knowledge (1995) (5)
- Effective classification learning (1996) (4)
- On Deliberation under Incomplete Information and the Inadequacy of Entailment and Consistency-Based Formalizations (2003) (4)
- Regression and progression in stochastic domains (2020) (4)
- Decidable Reasoning in a Logic of Limited Belief with Function Symbols (2016) (4)
- Chapter 15 – Planning (2004) (4)
- Toward a New Science of Common Sense (2021) (4)
- Towards Representing What Readers of Fiction Believe (2017) (3)
- Specifying Plausibility Levels for Iterated Belief Change in the Situation Calculus (2018) (3)
- Principles of metareasoning (1992) (3)
- A COUNTEREXAMPLE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS (1993) (3)
- Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, UAI 2013, Bellevue, WA, USA, August 11-15, 2013 (2013) (3)
- Explanation and Diagnosis (2004) (3)
- An Argument for Indexical Representations in Temporal Reasoning (1994) (3)
- The effect of knowledge on belief: conditioning, specificity and the lottery paradox in default reasoning (1992) (3)
- The Consistency of Syntactical Treatments of Knowledge. (1988) (3)
- Comments on "Knowledge, Representation, and Rational Self-Government" (1988) (3)
- Proceedings of the Eights International Conference on Principles and Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR-02) (2002) (2)
- The 2005 AAAI Classic Paper Awards (2005) (2)
- Machines like Us (2022) (2)
- The Tradeoff between Expressiveness and Tractability (2004) (2)
- A Tractable, Expressive, and Eventually Complete First-Order Logic of Limited Belief (2019) (2)
- Chapter 10 – Inheritance (2004) (2)
- An Epistemic Approach to Nondeterminism: Believing in the Simplest Course of Events (2018) (2)
- Incorporating Action Models into the Situation Calculus (2014) (1)
- Chapter 3 – Expressing Knowledge (2004) (1)
- 10081 Abstracts Collection - Cognitive Robotics (2010) (1)
- On Joint Ability in the Presence of Sensing (2009) (1)
- Chapter 9 – Structured Descriptions (2004) (1)
- Undirected behavior without unbounded search (1996) (1)
- Progression and Regression Using Sensors (2011) (1)
- KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION AND REASONINGl (1986) (1)
- The substitutional framework for sorted deduction: fundamental results on hybrid reasoning (1992) (1)
- Changing Beliefs about Domain Dynamics in the Situation Calculus (2020) (1)
- Vagueness, Uncertainty, and Degrees of Belief (2004) (1)
- Querying AOL Knowledge Bases (2000) (1)
- Rules in Production Systems (2004) (1)
- Adding DL-Lite TBoxes to Proper Knowledge Bases (2015) (1)
- Chapter 11 – Defaults (2004) (1)
- A logical theory of robot localization (2014) (1)
- KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION AND REASONING1 (1989) (1)
- A First-Order Logic of Limited Belief Based on Possible Worlds (2020) (1)
- All I Know : An Abridged Report 1 (1999) (0)
- A First-Order Logical Language (2001) (0)
- Panel: logicality vs. rationality (1988) (0)
- Knowledge and Action (2001) (0)
- The Representation Theorem (2001) (0)
- An Epistemic Logical Language (2001) (0)
- Impediments to universal preference-based default theories * (1992) (0)
- NOTE OF APPRECIATION FROM THE EDITORS (1995) (0)
- Only-Knowing-About (2001) (0)
- Temporal constraint networks (1992) (0)
- Undirected behavior without unbounded search (1995) (0)
- Under Consideration for Publication in Theory and Practice of Logic Programming Book Review (2012) (0)
- Announcements (1982) (0)
- SIA On team formation (1997) (0)
- Tractable Reasoning with Incomplete Knowledge in Dynamic Systems (0)
- How to Execute a Conditional (1996) (0)
- On the Proof Theory of OL (2001) (0)
- A Logical Theory of Localization (2015) (0)
- Digging for Diamonds in the Mines of Collatz (2022) (0)
- Procedural Control of Reasoning (2004) (0)
- Knowledge Bases as Representations of Epistemic States (2001) (0)
- 10081 Abstracts Collection Cognitive Robotics Dagstuhl Seminar (2010) (0)
- Only-Knowing and Autoepistemic Logic (2001) (0)
- Books received (2012) (0)
- Empirical Analysis of Optimization Techniques for Terminological Repre- Sentation Systems Or: Making Kris Get a Move On. Applied Artiicial Intel (0)
- Panel: Objects of Knowledge and Belief: Sentences vs. Propositions? (1986) (0)
- Belief and Introspection (1991) (0)
- What Robots Can Do (1998) (0)
- A Concept Language for an Engineering Application with Part-whole 5.5 New Perspectives in O-odm Tennis-club V (= 1 President-mbs Tennis-player) Tennis-player V ( 1 President-mbs Tennis-club) 5.3 Modeling Wholes in Object-oriented Data Models (1996) (0)
- The TELL and ASK Operations (2001) (0)
- The logic EOL (2001) (0)
- An experiment in using Golog to build a personal banking assistant (extended abstract) (1997) (0)
- Agent Research in the Cognitive Robotics Group (0)
- What is planning in the resence of sensing ? * (1999) (0)
- Existence assumptions in knowledge representation (1992) (0)
- An Epistemic Approach to Nondeterminism: Believing in the Simplest Course of Events (2018) (0)
- Avoiding Logical Omniscience (2001) (0)
- 2.2 Sensing 2.1 Acting a Logic for Acting, Sensing and Planning (1995) (0)
- 8 Summary of a Winograd Schema (2012) (0)
- The computational complexity of abduction (1992) (0)
- Some Further Thoughts on Expressiveness and Tractability (2007) (0)
- The Truth about Defaults (2006) (0)
- IJCAI Organization (2007) (0)
- On the applicability of nonmonotonic logic to formal reasoning in continuous time (1992) (0)
- 2. The Logic (2017) (0)
- Reasoning with Horn Clauses (2004) (0)
- Panel: Locality vs. Rationality (1988) (0)
- Logical Properties of Knowledge (2001) (0)
- In Memory of Ray Reiter (1939-2002) (2002) (0)
- Three Variations on a Theme by Collatz (2015) (0)
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