UNSW Handbook Course - First-order Logic

First-order Logic - COMP4415


	Faculty: Faculty of Engineering
	School: School of Computer Science and Engineering
	Contact: Meyer,Thomas
	Campus: Kensington Campus
	Career: Postgraduate
	Units of Credit: 6
	EFTSL: 0.125 (more info)
	Contact Hours per Week: 4
	Enrolment Requirements:
	Prerequisite: COMP9101 or COMP3121 or COMP2411 or, enrolment in MIT program 8684 or GradCert program 7344, or permission from the lecturer in charge.
	Session Offered: See Class Timetable
	Fee Band: 2 (more info)

Description

This course is a presentation of the kind of logic useful for knowledge representation and reasoning. It begins with the elements of first-order logic using tableau methods and proceeds to soundness and completeness, and compactness. Using compactness it addresses issues like expressibility to show, for instance, why transitive closure is not first-order. The course concludes with an introduction to non-monotonic reasoning as a formalization of common sense reasoning.

Further Information

CSE class page: www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~cs4415

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