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Despite the obvious relevance of plausible reasoning to real-world problem solving, nonmonotonic logics are rarely used in commercial applications or large- scale commonsense reasoning systems. This is largely because few efficient algorithms and tools have thus far been developed.
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Morgenstern, L. (1999). Practical Nonmonotonic Reasoning: Extending Inheritance Techniques to Solve Real-World Problems. In: Gelfond, M., Leone, N., Pfeifer, G. (eds) Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning. LPNMR 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1730. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-46767-X_30
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