Luís C. Lamb DIC, PhD

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
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Department of Theoretical Informatics - Institute of Informatics - UFRGS  


Research Interests

-Logic in Computation and Artificial Intelligence
Logics in Computer Science and AI. Knowledge Representation and Reasoning; Non-Classical Computation/Logics; Labelled Deductive Systems (LDS).
-Neural and Cognitive Computation:
Cognitive/Neural Learning and Reasoning. Machine Learning. Neural-Symbolic Computation. Connectionist Non-Classical Logics.

-Artificial Intelligence and Social Computing: Social Networks Models and Algorithms.

-Formal methods in embedded systems.


Some online papers:

Neural computation; cognitive reasoning; (includes a full solution to the Muddy Children Puzzle): Reasoning about time and knowledge in neural-symbolic learning systems (A.d’Avila Garcez & Luis C. Lamb, Proc. NIPS 2003, pp. 921-928; Vancouver CA, MIT Press 2004).

Cognitive computation; temporal synchronization and learning in cognitive models: A connectionist cognitive model for temporal synchronisation and learning. (L.C. Lamb; R.V Borges; A. d’Avila Garcez; Proc. AAAI-07, pp. 827-832, Vancouver CA, AAAI Press 2007)

Minority game; memory/resource use in Minority Games: An information-theoretic analysis of memory bounds in a distributed resource allocation mechanism. (R.M. Araújo; L.C. Lamb; Proc. IJCAI-07, pp. 212-217, Hyderabad IN, AAAI Press 2007)

Social computing: Memetic Networks: analyzing the effects of network properties in multi-agent performance (R.M. Araújo & L.C. Lamb, Proc. AAAI-08, pp. 3-8, Chicago, AAAI Press 2008).


Some papers on logics, neural/cognitive computation, and AI (copyrighted material):

Araújo and Lamb: On the Use of Memory and Resources in Minority Games. ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems 4(2):1-23, May 2009.

Da Silva; Kellermann;  Lamb: Statistical fluctuations in population bargaining in the ultimatum game: static and evolutionary aspects. Jnl. of Theoretical Biology,258(2):208-218,2009.

Borges;  d’Avila Garcez;  Lamb: A neural-symbolic perspective on analogy. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2008, 371(4):379-380, please click here (Cambridge Univ. Press link)

d’Avila Garcez; Lamb;  Gabbay: Connectionist Modal Logic: Representing Modalities in Neural Networks, Theor. Comput. Sci. 2007, 371(1-2):34-53, 2007 , please click here (Elsevier link)

d’Avila Garcez; Lamb;  Gabbay: Connectionist computations of intuitionistic reasoning, Theoretical Computer Science 2006, 358(1):34-55.

d’Avila Garcez and Lamb: A Connectionist Computational Model for Epistemic and Temporal Reasoning, Neural Computation 2006, 18(7):1711-1738, please click here (MIT Press link)

d’Avila Garcez; Gabbay;  Lamb: Value-based argumentation frameworks as Neural-Symbolic Learning Systems, Jnl. Log. Comput.2005, 15(6):1041-1058 please click here (Oxford U.Press link)

Broda; Gabbay; Lamb; Russo: Labelled Natural deduction for conditional logics of normality. Logic Jnl. IGPL 2002 10(2):123-163 (Oxford Univ. Press link)


Click here for additional information about my research, including a brief CV and recent publications.   A photograph


Correspondence from Professor D.E. Knuth


New book: Neural-Symbolic Cognitive Reasoning by A.d’Avila Garcez, Luis Lamb and Dov Gabbay. Cognitive Technologies, Springer 2009. Click here for details.


I have (not so) recently co-authored this research monograph on non-classical logics:

CLDS book

Compiled Labelled Deductive Systems: A Uniform Presentation of Non-Classical Logics (K. Broda, D. M. Gabbay, Luis C. Lamb, and A. Russo)
ISBN 0 86380 296 6
Research Studies Press , Hertfordshire, England
Institute of Physics Publishing, Philadelphia 2004


I have not so recently co-edited the following volumes:
Table of contents, Vol. One
Table of contents, Vol.
Two


We Will Show Them! Volume OneWe Will Show Them! Volume Two


Recent professional services:

Journal of Algorithms in Cognition, Informatics and Logics

Revista de Informática Teórica e Aplicada (RITA)

 

The 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems AAMAS 2010

AAAI-10 6th International Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning NeSy’10: (NeSy’10 at AAAI-10)

SEMISH 2010 at the XXX Congress of the Brazilian Computer Society (CSBC2010)

 

2009 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks – IJCNN2009

LAGOS 09 5th Latin-American Algorithms, Graphs and Optimization Symposium

NeSy’09- 5th International Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning at IJCAI-09

MOMPES-09 6th International Workshop on Model-based Methodologies for Pervasive and Embedded Software at ICSE 2009

LSFA 2009 Fourth Workshop on Logical and Semantic Frameworks, with Applications

SEMISH 2009 at XXIX Congress of the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC)

SBMF 2009 Brazilian Symposium on Formal Methods

ENIA 2009 VII Brazilian AI Meeting (Encontro Nacional de Inteligência Artificial)

NeSy’08 4th International Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning at ECAI 2008

Dagstuhl Seminar 08041: Recurrent Neural Networks: Models, Capacities and Applications

Brazilian Symposium on Artificial Intelligence SBIA 2008

Brazilian Symposium on Formal Methods SBMF 2008

NeSy'07 3rd International Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning at IJCAI 2007
10th Brazilian Symposium on Formal Methods - SBMF 2007
VI Brazilian Meeting on Artificial Intelligence - ENIA 2007
NeSy'06 Second International Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning at ECAI 2006
NeSy'05 First International Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning at IJCAI 2005


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Dr Luís C. Lamb
Departmento de Informática Teórica                             e-mail: LuisLamb AT acm DOT org

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A few interesting links...

Are you interested in logic, mathematics and computing (including their history)? Here you will find useful links...
The British Library
The British Museum
Musée d'Orsay
The Rare Book Room (abebooks)
Philosophy resources on the internet
History of Mathematics (The MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, St. Andrews, Scotland)
The National Gallery, London
Here is an ancient homepage... not up-to-date.


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