%0 Report %@ 446 %A Konolige, Kurt %T Hierarchic Autoepistemic Theories For Nonmonotonic Reasoning: Preliminary, Report %C 333 Ravenswood Ave., Menlo Park, CA 94025 %I AI Center, SRI International %D 1991 %K Reasoning!Nonmonotonic, Nonmonotonic Reasoning|seeReasoning, Logic!Autoepistemic %X Nonmonotonic logics are meant to be a formalization of nonmonotonic reasoning. However, for the most part they fail to embody two of the most important aspects of such reasoning: the explicit computational nature of nonmonotonic inference, and the assignment of preferences among competing inferences. We propose a method of nonmonotonic reasoning in which the notion of inference from specific bodies of evidence plays a fundamental role. The formalization is based on autoepistemic logic, but introduces additional structure, a hierarchy of evidential spaces. The method offers a natural formalization of many different applications of nonmonotonic reasoning, including reasoning about action, speech acts, belief revision, and various situations involving competing defaults. %O Originally published August 1988; revised April 1991 %U http://www.ai.sri.com/pubs/files/523.pdf
