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Towards a formalization of narratives: Actions with duration, concurrent actions and qualifications

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The paper addresses the qualification problem in the context of narratives where actions with duration, causal chains of actions and concurrent actions occur. In order to represent these scenarios, we define an action description language AL 1 which enables to represent different types of system constraints and guarantees correct interactions between actions in simple cases of concurrency. A simple linear discrete model of time is assumed. Two preferential methods of reasoning are proposed which amount to global and chronological maximization of executable actions, respectively. We provide a translation from AL 1 into circumscription and show that this translation is sound and complete relative to the semantics of AL 1.

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Dov M. Gabbay Rudolf Kruse Andreas Nonnengart Hans Jürgen Ohlbach

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Radzikowska, A. (1997). Towards a formalization of narratives: Actions with duration, concurrent actions and qualifications. In: Gabbay, D.M., Kruse, R., Nonnengart, A., Ohlbach, H.J. (eds) Qualitative and Quantitative Practical Reasoning. FAPR ECSQARU 1997 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1244. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0035643

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