%0 Book Section %1 Shanahan1999 %A Shanahan, Murray P. %B Artificial Intelligence Today, Lecture Notes in AI no. 1600 %D 1999 %E Woolridge, M. J. %E Veloso, M. %I Springer %K action logic, planning temporal %P 409--430 %T The Event Calculus Explained %X This article presents the event calculus, a logic-based formalism for representing actions and their effects. A circumscriptive solution to the frame problem is deployed which reduces to monotonic predicate completion. Using a number of benchmark examples from the literature, the formalism is shown to apply to a variety of domains, including those featuring actions with indirect effects, actions with non-deterministic effects, concurrent actions, and continuous change. %Z Tutorial introduction to event calculus.

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