Dov M. Gabbay (; born October 23, 1945) is an Israeli logician. He is Augustus De Morgan

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at the Group of

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, Department of

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Work

Gabbay has authored over four hundred and fifty research papers and over thirty research monographs. He is editor of several international journals, and of many reference works and handbooks of logic, including the ''Handbook of Philosophical Logic'' (with

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), the ''Handbook of Logic in Computer Science]'' (with

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and T. S. E. Maibaum), and the ''Handbook of Logic in Artificial Intelligence and Logic Programming'' (with C.J. Hogger and J.A. Robinson). He is well-known for pioneering work on logic in computer science and artificial intelligence, especially the application of (executable)

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s in computer science, in particular

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, the logical foundations of

non-monotonic reasoning A non-monotonic logic is a formal logic whose conclusion relation is not monotonic. In other words, non-monotonic logics are devised to capture and represent defeasible inferences (cf. defeasible reasoning), i.e., a kind of inference in which rea ...

and artificial intelligence, the introduction of fibring logics and the theory of labelled deductive systems. He is Chairman and founder of several international conferences, executive of the European Foundation of Logic, Language and Information and President of the International IGPL Logic Group. He is founder, and joint President of the International Federation of Computational Logic. He is also one of the four founders and council member for many years of FoLLI, the Association of Logic, Language and Information, from which he is now retired. He remains a life member. He is co-founder with Jane Spurr of College Publications, a not-for-profit, start-up

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from authors. A two volume ''

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'' in his honor was published in 2005 by College Publications.

Regular positions

* 1968–1970 – Instructor,

Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; he, הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Dr. Chaim Weiz ...

* 1970–1973 – Assistant Professor of Philosophy,

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* 1973–1975 – Associate Professor of Philosophy, Stanford University * 1975–1977 – Associate Professor,

Bar-Ilan University Bar-Ilan University (BIU, he, אוניברסיטת בר-אילן, ''Universitat Bar-Ilan'') is a public research university in the Tel Aviv District city of Ramat Gan, Israel. Established in 1955, Bar Ilan is Israel's second-largest academic i ...

* 1977–1983 – Lady Davis Professor of Logic, Bar-Ilan University * 1983–1998 – Professor of Computing,

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, London * 1998–present – Professor of Computing, Professor of Philosophy, Augustus De Morgan Professor of Logic, King's College, London * 2009–present – Special Professor Bar-Ilan University * 2015–present – Professor of Logics,

Ashkelon Academic College Ashkelon Academic College ( he, המכללה האקדמית אשקלון, ''HaMiklala HaAkademit Ashkelon'') is a public college in Ashkelon, Israel. The college has two faculties The School of Economics and Social Work for management, logistics, b ...

Selected writings

Dov M. Gabbay Dov M. Gabbay (; born October 23, 1945) is an Israeli logician. He is Augustus De Morgan Professor Emeritus of Logic at the Group of Logic, Language and Computation, Department of Computer Science, King's College London. Work Gabbay has authored ...

, T.S.E. Maibaum.br>Handbook of Logic in Computer Science
Vols.1-5. Clarendom Press, Oxford, 1992–2000. * Artur S. d'Avila Garcez, Luis C. Lamb, Dov Gabbay
Neural-Symbolic Cognitive Reasoning
Springer, 2009. *Michael D. Fisher, Dov M. Gabbay, Lluis Vila (eds)
Handbook of temporal reasoning in artificial intelligence.
Elsevier, 2005. *Dov M. Gabbay
Theoretical foundations for non-monotonic reasoning in expert systems
In: Apt K.R. (ed) Logics and Models of Concurrent Systems. NATO ASI Series (Series F: Computer and Systems Sciences), vol 13. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 439–457, 1985. *Dov M. Gabbay (ed)
What is a logical system?
Studies in Logic and Computation, Oxford University Press, 1994. *Dov M. Gabbay
Labelled Deductive Systems, vol.1.
Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1996. * Dov M. Gabbay

Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1998. *Dov M. Gabbay, Ian Hodkinson, Mark Reynolds: Temporal Logic
Mathematical Foundations and Computational Aspects, vol. 1.
Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1994. *Dov M. Gabbay, Agi Kurucz, Frank Wolter, Michael Zakharyaschev
Many-dimensional modal logics: theory and applications
North-Holland, 2003. *Dov M. Gabbay,

Amir Pnueli Amir Pnueli ( he, אמיר פנואלי; April 22, 1941 – November 2, 2009) was an Israeli computer scientist and the 1996 Turing Award recipient. Biography Pnueli was born in Nahalal, in the British Mandate of Palestine (now in Israel) and rec ...

Saharon Shelah Saharon Shelah ( he, שהרן שלח; born July 3, 1945) is an Israeli mathematician. He is a professor of mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Rutgers University in New Jersey. Biography Shelah was born in Jerusalem on July 3, ...

, Jonathan Stavi
On the temporal analysis of fairness.
POPL'80: Proceedings of the 7th SIGPLAN-SIGACT ACM Annual Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages, January, 1980, pages 163–173, ACM Press. *Dov M. Gabbay and John Woods
Agenda Relevance: A Study in Formal Pragmatics
North-Holland, 2003. * Ruth M. Kempson, Wilfried Meyer-Viol, Dov M. Gabbay
Dynamic syntax: The flow of language understanding
Blackwell, 2000.

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