Dov M. Gabbay (, ; born October 26, 1945) is an Israeli logician. He is

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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 Franz Guenthner), the ''Handbook of Logic in Computer Science]'' (with Samson Abramsky 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) temporal logics in computer science, in particular

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, the logical foundations of non-monotonic reasoning 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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Regular positions

* 1968–1970 – Instructor,

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* 1970–1973 – Assistant Professor of Philosophy,

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* 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 * 2015–2017 – Professor of Logics, Ashkelon Academic College

Selected writings

* Samson Abramsky, Dov M. Gabbay, 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
Fibring Logics.
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,

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, 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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