Acknowledgments to the First Edition

Erik T. Mueller

It is my great pleasure to acknowledge the people who have contributed to this book, although space constraints do not permit me to refer to everyone by name. I am particularly indebted to the inventors of the event calculus. This book owes its existence to the pathbreaking work of Robert A. Kowalski, Marek J. Sergot, Murray Shanahan, Rob Miller, and other researchers in the field of reasoning about action and change.

I am privileged to work in the academically stimulating environment of the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. Special thanks are due to Doug Riecken, the creator of the Commonsense Computing department in which I work. I am grateful for the support of Guruduth S. Banavar, Arthur ...

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