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8562
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2001 - ACM Fellow For his work as a cofounder of the field of logic programming, for providing the field's first foundations, and for pursuing applications to legal reasoning, temporal reasoning, metalevel reasoning, default reasoning, and argumentation.

Overview

Robert A. Kowalski is affiliated with Imperial College London in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple domains, primarily within computer science, medicine, and the arts and humanities. The subfields in which they have contributed include artificial intelligence, economics and econometrics, toxicology, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, as well as radiology, nuclear medicine, and imaging.

Their research topics focus notably on logic, reasoning, and knowledge; multi-agent systems and negotiation; semantic web and ontologies; health systems, economic evaluations, and quality of life; pharmaceutical economics and policy; pharmacovigilance and adverse drug reactions; and natural language processing techniques.

Robert A. Kowalski has published in several venues, with frequent publications appearing in the following journals and conferences:

  • Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics
  • Artificial Intelligence and Law
  • Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science
  • Revue Ouverte d Intelligence Artificielle

Their recent papers include:

  • "COVID-19: A Catalyst to Accelerate Global Regulatory Transformation," 2020, Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics
  • "Logical English meets legal English for swaps and derivatives," 2021, Artificial Intelligence and Law
  • "Creating E-Labeling Platforms: An Industry Vision," 2020, Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics
  • "Proceedings 39th International Conference on Logic Programming," 2023, Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science
  • "The Marseille-Edinburgh Connection," 2024, Revue Ouverte d Intelligence Artificielle

Robert A. Kowalski has worked collaboratively with several frequent co-authors, including Jacinto Dávila, Jerry Stewart, Peter K. Honig, Deborah Autor, and J. Helen Fitton.

In addition to journal articles, Kowalski has contributed to book publications, including a title published by Springer Science+Business Media:

  • "Prolog: The Next 50 Years," 2023

Among honors, Robert A. Kowalski was awarded the ACM Fellow distinction in 2001. The citation recognizes their work as a cofounder of the field of logic programming and foundational contributions to legal, temporal, metalevel, default reasoning, and argumentation applications.

Best Publications

  • A logic-based calculus of events

    Robert Kowalski;Marek Sergot

  • Logic for problem solving

    Robert Kowalski;Steve Smoliar

  • The Semantics of Predicate Logic as a Programming Language

    M. H. Van Emden;R. A. Kowalski

  • Algorithm = logic + control

    Robert Kowalski

  • Abductive Logic Programming

    Antonis C. Kakas;Robert A. Kowalski;Francesca Toni

  • An abstract, argumentation-theoretic approach to default reasoning

    A. Bondarenko;P. M. Dung;R. A. Kowalski;F. Toni

  • Predicate Logic as Programming Language.

    Robert A. Kowalski

  • The British Nationality Act as a logic program

    M. J. Sergot;F. Sadri;R. A. Kowalski;F. Kriwaczek

  • Linear Resolution with Selection Function

    Robert A. Kowalski;Donald Kuehner

  • Abduction Compared with Negation by Failure.

    Kave Eshghi;Robert A. Kowalski

  • A Proof Procedure Using Connection Graphs

    Robert Kowalski

  • Dialectic proof procedures for assumption-based, admissible argumentation

    P. M. Dung;R. A. Kowalski;F. Toni

  • Assumption-Based Argumentation

    Phan Minh Dung;Robert A. Kowalski;Francesca Toni

  • The IFF proof procedure for abductive logic programming

    Tze Ho Fung;Robert A. Kowalski

  • The early years of logic programming

    Robert A. Kowalski

  • Database updates in the event calculus

    Robert Kowalski

  • From logic programming towards multi-agent systems

    Robert Kowalski;Fariba Sadri

  • A theorem-proving approach to database integrity

    F. Sadri;R. Kowalski

  • Abstract argumentation

    Robert A. Kowalski;Francesca Toni

  • Logic programs with exceptions

    Robert A. kowalski;Fariba Sadri

Frequent Co-Authors

Francesca Toni
Francesca Toni Imperial College London
Marek Sergot
Marek Sergot Imperial College London
Antonis C. Kakas
Antonis C. Kakas University of Cyprus
Robert F. Miller
Robert F. Miller University College London
Giovanni Sartor
Giovanni Sartor University of Bologna
Alessio Lomuscio
Alessio Lomuscio Imperial College London
Stephen Muggleton
Stephen Muggleton Imperial College London
Ehud Shapiro
Ehud Shapiro Weizmann Institute of Science

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