Abstract: | Nonmonotonic reasoning and nonmonotonic truth maintenance are two important research aspects of artificial intelligence, which have close relations. Existing nonmonotonic truth maintenance systems can be used as the theorem provers of conventional nonmonotonic logics, but they can't represent and deal with prioritized nonmonotonic reasoning. This paper presented stratified truth maintenance systems which can represent and deal with prioritized justifications. It will be shown that the stratified ATMS can be used as a theorem prover of prioritized nonmonotonic logics. |