Inheritance Networks

1. Etherington, David W., & Reiter, Raymond (1983), "On Inheritance Hierarchies with Exceptions", Proceedings of the [4th] National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-83; Washington, DC) (Los Altos, CA: William Kaufmann): 1-4-108.
   • Reprinted in:
     Brachman, Ronald J. & Levesque, Hector J. (eds.) (1985), Readings in Knowledge Representation (Los Altos, CA: Morgan Kaufmann): 329-334.

   • and in:
     Ginsberg, Matthew L. (ed.) (1987), Readings in Nonmonotonic Reasoning (Los Altos, CA: Morgan Kaufmann): 101-105.
     • UNDERGRAD Reserve (2 Hr/In-Library) Q335 .R433 1987

2. Touretzky, David S. (1984), "Implicit Ordering of Defaults in Inheritance Systems", Proceedings of the [5th] National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-84; Austin, TX) (Los Altos, CA: William Kaufmann): 322-325.
   • Reprinted in:
     Ginsberg, Matthew L. (ed.) (1987), Readings in Nonmonotonic Reasoning (Los Altos, CA: Morgan Kaufmann): 106-109.
     • UNDERGRAD Reserve (2 Hr/In-Library) Q335 .R433 1987

3. Thomason, Richmond (1992), "NETL and Subsequent Path-Based Inheritance Theories", in Fritz Lehmann (ed.), Semantic Networks in Artificial Intelligence (Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1992): 179-204.

4. On path-based inheritance in SNePS:
   • Some general comments on rules vs. paths in SNePS
     • rules-vs-paths.demo
     • rules-vs-paths.script

   • Shapiro, Stuart C. (1978), "Path-Based and Node-Based Inference in Semantic Networks", in David Waltz (ed.), TINLAP-2: Theoretical Issues in Natural Language Processing (New York: ACL): 219-225.

   • Srihari, Rohini (1981), "Combining Path-Based and Node-Based Reasoning in SNePS", Technical Report 183 (Buffalo: SUNY Buffalo Department of Computer Science).

   • Shapiro, Stuart C. (1991), "Cables, Paths and `Subconsious' Reasoning in Propositional Semantic Networks", in John F. Sowa (ed.), Principles of Semantic Networks (San Mateo, CA: Morgan Kaufmann): 137-156.