A sceptical theory of inheritance in nonmonotonic semantic networks

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Artificial Intelligence 42 (2-3):311-348 (1990)
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inheritance reasoning in semantic networks allowing for multiple inheritance with exceptions. The approach leads to a definition of iaheritance that is..

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Richmond Thomason
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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