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A Portrait of a Scientist as a Computational Logician

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Computational Logic: Logic Programming and Beyond

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Throughout his prolific scientific career, Robert (Bob) Kowalski was motivated by his desire to reshape logic from an abstract mathematical discipline into a working tool for problem solving. This led him towards a wide exploration of logic in computer science, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and law.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, K.U.Leuven, Belgium

    Maurice Bruynooghe

  2. Departamento de Informatica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

    Luís Moniz Pereira

  3. German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Saarland University, Saarbruecken, Germany

    Jörg H. Siekmann

  4. Department of Computer Science, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

    Maarten van Emden

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus, 75 Kallipoleos St., 1678, Nicosia, Cyprus

    Antonis C. Kakas

  2. Department of Computing, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, 180 Queen’s Gate, London, SW7 2BZ, UK

    Fariba Sadri

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Bruynooghe, M., Pereira, L.M., Siekmann, J.H., van Emden, M. (2002). A Portrait of a Scientist as a Computational Logician. In: Kakas, A.C., Sadri, F. (eds) Computational Logic: Logic Programming and Beyond. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2407. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45628-7_1

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