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Towards a general theory of action and time

James F. Allen
- 18 Jul 1984 - 
- Vol. 23, Iss: 2, pp 123-154
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In this article, a formalism for reasoning about actions is proposed that is based on a temporal logic, which allows a much wider range of actions to be described than with previous approaches such as the situation calculus.
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This article is published in Artificial Intelligence.The article was published on 1984-07-18. It has received 2439 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Temporal logic of actions & Situation calculus.

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