Nonmonotonic inheritance of class membership

This thesis describes a formal analysis of nonmonotonic inheritance. The need for such an understanding of inheritance has been apparent from the time that multiple inheritance and exceptions were mixed in the same representation with the result that the meaning of an inheritance network was no long...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Woodhead, David A.
Published: University of Aberdeen 1990
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.290251