Saurabh Paul, Christos Boutsidis, et al.
JMLR
Nonmonotonic reasoning is virtually absent from industry and has been so since its inception; the result is that the field is becoming marginalized within A I . I argue that this is because researchers in the area focus exclusively on commonsense problems which are irrelevant to industry and because few efficient algorithms and/or tools have been developed. A sensible strategy is thus to focus on industry problems and to develop solutions within tractable subtheories of nonmonotonic logic. I examine one of the few examples of nonmonotonic reasoning in industry - inheritance of business rules in the medical insurance domain - and show how the paradigm of inheritance with exceptions can be extended to a broader and more powerful kind of nonmonotonic reasoning. Finally I discuss the underlying lessons that can be generalized to other industry problems.
Saurabh Paul, Christos Boutsidis, et al.
JMLR
Joxan Jaffar
Journal of the ACM
Rakesh Mohan, Ramakant Nevatia
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Cristina Cornelio, Judy Goldsmith, et al.
JAIR