Abstract :
To specify, verify, and reason about spatio-temporal knowledge, we need a right fundamental logic system to provide us with a criterion of logical validity for reasoning as well as a formal representation and specification language. In order to reason out new spatio-temporal knowledge with incomplete or sometime even inconsistent knowledge, the fundamental logic must be able to underlie truth-preserving and relevant reasoning in the sense of conditional, ampliative reasoning, paracomplete reasoning, paraconsistent reasoning, spatial reasoning, and temporal reasoning. This paper proposes a new family of relevant logic, named "spatio-temporal relevant logic," and shows that it is a hopeful candidate for the fundamental logic to underlie specifying, verifying, and reasoning about spatio-temporal knowledge
Keywords :
formal specification; knowledge representation languages; knowledge verification; spatial reasoning; specification languages; temporal logic; temporal reasoning; ampliative reasoning; conditional reasoning; formal representation language; formal specification language; paracomplete reasoning; paraconsistent reasoning; spatial reasoning; spatio-temporal information systems; spatio-temporal knowledge reasoning; spatio-temporal knowledge specification; spatio-temporal knowledge verification; spatio-temporal relevant logic; temporal reasoning; Databases; Geographic Information Systems; Information retrieval; Information systems; Knowledge management; Logic; Management information systems; Mobile computing; Multiagent systems; Specification languages;