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============================================================ ================================================================ Incompleteness in Information John Grant and Maria Vanina Martinez (Eds)
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After the successful completion and publication of our book "Measuring Inconsistency in Information" last year, we are now ready to start another book project. We plan to edit a book "Incompleteness in Information" and are looking for prospective chapter authors and reviewers. The dual concepts of incompleteness and inconsistency were introduced in the early 1970s by John Grant. While there was little research on inconsistency in information for several decades, incompleteness became important within a few years on account of the null value problem in relational databases for which John showed that Codd's 3-valued logic approach , later adopted for SQL, did not always give the correct answer. So research on incompleteness has been going on for nearly 50 years.
We would like to put together a book that covers the past, present, and future of incompleteness. So we are interested in survey chapters of past work on incompleteness, research chapters of up-to-date issues in this area and would like a chapter that concentrates on research issues for the future. We are interpreting incompleteness in a fairly broad sense for databases and AI including games, for instance. However, we are excluding incompleteness in the sense of statistical, probabilistic, and fuzzy data.
If you (or someone you know) may be interested in this project in any way such as writing a chapter, or reviewing, or if you have any suggestions or advice please write to either grant@cs.umd.edu (John Grant) or mvmartinez@dc.uba.ar (Maria Vanina Martinez).
Tentative Schedule: Chapters Due: Oct 31, 2019 Acceptance and Reviews: Jan 31, 2020 Final Version: March 31, 2020 Publication: May 2020