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The action language \({\mathcal{C}}+\) of Giunchiglia, Lee, Lifschitz, McCain, and Turner is a formalism for specifying and reasoning about the effects of actions and the persistence (‘inertia’) of facts over time. An ‘action description’ in \({\mathcal{C}}+\) defines a labelled transition system of a certain kind. \(n{\mathcal{C}}+\) (formerly known as \(({\mathcal{C}}+)^{++}\)) is an extended form of \({\mathcal{C}}+\) designed for representing normative and institutional aspects of (human or computer) societies. The deontic component of \(n{\mathcal{C}}+\) provides a means of specifying the permitted (acceptable, legal) states of a transition system and its permitted (acceptable, legal) transitions. We present this component of \(n{\mathcal{C}}+\), motivating its details with reference to some small illustrative examples.
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Sergot, M., Craven, R. (2006). The Deontic Component of Action Language \(n{\mathcal{C}}+\) . In: Goble, L., Meyer, JJ.C. (eds) Deontic Logic and Artificial Normative Systems. DEON 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4048. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11786849_19
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