Oxford Logic Guides Temporal Logic: Volume 2

Mathematical logic is an area of interest to workers in philosophy and computer science as well as mathematics. This book, the companion to an already successful volume by the same authors, deals with an area of logic of interest in computer science, which considers the particularly rich and complex effects of time. This is the second volume of this respected work in temporal logic. Whereas volume 1 dealt primarily with basic concepts and methods, volume 2 discusses the more applicable aspects of temporal logics. The first four chapters continue the more theoretical presentations in volume 1, covering automata, branching time and labelled deduction. The rest of the book discusses temporal databases, temporal execution and programming, actions and planning.