{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"Inheritance Comes of Age: Applying Nonmonotonic Techniques to Problems in Industry","authors":[{"name":"Leora Morgenstern","slug":"leora-morgenstern","given":"Leora","family":"Morgenstern","affiliation":""}],"abstract":"N onmonotonic reasoning is virtually absent from industry and has been so since its inception; the result is that the field is becoming marginalized within AI. I argue that this is because researchers in the area focus exclusively on commonsense problems which are irrelevant to industry and because few efficient algorithms and/or tools have been developed. A sensible strategy is thus to focus on industry problems and to develop solutions within tractable subtheories of nonmonotonic logic. I examine one of the few examples of nonmonotonic reasoning in industry - inheritance of business rules in the medical insurance domain - and show how the paradigm of inheritance with exceptions can be extended to a broader and more powerful kind of nonmonotonic reasoning. Finally I discuss the underlying lessons that can be generalized to other industry problems.","doi":null,"url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1997/234","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1997/0234.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1997/234.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1997/bibtex/234","volume":{"slug":"1997","title":"Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 1997","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1997/","year":1997,"location":"Nagoya, Japan","dates":"","editors":"Martha E. Pollack","isbn":"","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence","doi_prefix":""},"section":"Invited Speakers","track":"Invited Speakers","number":234,"pages":{"first":1613,"last":1620},"keywords":[],"videos":[],"references":[],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}