Raymond Reiter FRSC was a Canadian computer scientist and logician. He was one of the founders of the field of non-monotonic reasoning with his work on default logic, model-based diagnosis, closed-world reasoning, and truth maintenance systems. He also contributed to the situation calculus.
Awards and honors
He was a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), an AAAI Fellow, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He won the IJCAI Award for Research Excellence in 1993.
Publications
- R. Reiter (1978). On closed world data bases. In H. Gallaire and J. Minker, editors, Logic and Data Bases, pages 119–140. Plenum., New York.
- R. Reiter (1980). A logic for default reasoning. Artificial Intelligence, 13:81-132.
- R. Reiter (1987). A theory of diagnosis from first principles. Artificial Intelligence, 32:57-95.
- R. Reiter (1991). The frame problem in the situation calculus: a simple solution (sometimes) and a completeness result for goal regression. In Vladimir Lifschitz, editor, Artificial Intelligence and Mathematical Theory of Computation: Papers in Honor of John McCarthy, pages 359–380. Academic Press, New York.
- R. Reiter (2001) Knowledge in Action: Logical Foundations for Specifying and Implementing Dynamical Systems (448 pp.). The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England.
- R. Reiter and J. de Kleer (1987). Foundations of assumption-based truth maintenance systems: Preliminary report. In Proceedings of the Sixth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'87), pages 183–188.
- H. Levesque, F. Pirri, and R. Reiter (1998). Foundations for the situation calculus Electronic Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, 2(3–4):159-178.
- F. Pirri and R. Reiter (1999). Some contributions to the metatheory of the Situation Calculus Journal of the ACM, 46(3):325–361. doi:10.1145/316542.316545
References
Raymond Reiter at DBLP Bibliography Server https://dblp.org/pid/r/RaymondReiter ↩
Raymond Reiter at the Mathematics Genealogy Project https://mathgenealogy.org/id.php?id=5481 ↩
In Memoriam - Raymond Reiter, by Jack Minker http://prism.cs.umd.edu/papers/Min02:reiter_memoriam/Min02:reiter_memoriam.html ↩
In Memory of Ray Reiter (1939-2002) http://www.aaai.org/ojs/index.php/aimagazine/article/view/1672 ↩