By Philippe Smets (auth.), Philippe Smets (eds.)

We are chuffed to offer the 1st quantity of the instruction manual of Defeasible Reasoning and Uncertainty administration platforms. Uncertainty pervades the true international and needs to for this reason be addressed by means of each procedure that makes an attempt to symbolize truth. The illustration of uncertainty is a ma­ jor main issue of philosophers, logicians, man made intelligence researchers and com­ puter sciencists, psychologists, statisticians, economists and engineers. the current instruction manual volumes offer frontline insurance of this sector. This guide used to be produced within the variety of prior guide sequence just like the instruction manual of Philosoph­ ical common sense, the guide of good judgment in computing device technology, the guide of common sense in synthetic Intelligence and common sense Programming, and will be noticeable as a better half to them in protecting the large functions of common sense and reasoning. we are hoping it is going to resolution the desires for enough representations of uncertainty. This guide sequence grew out of the ESPRIT uncomplicated learn venture DRUMS II, the place the acronym is produced from the guide sequence name. This venture used to be financially supported by way of the eu Union and regroups 20 significant eu examine groups operating within the normal area of uncertainty. As a perimeter good thing about the DRUMS undertaking, the examine neighborhood was once in a position to create this Hand­ booklet sequence, hoping on the DRUMS individuals because the middle of the authors for the guide including exterior overseas experts.