A situation calculus model of hypertext

Abstract

We utilize the situation calculus to develop a logical model of hypertext systems. The work builds upon the earlier work of Bieber and Kimbrough (1994) in the logical modeling of hypertext systems. In our presentation, a particular version of the situation calculus (which includes a language for programming complex actions) developed for the modeling of dynamic worlds and for the control of robotic agents (as studied in artificial intelligence) is used to represent the dynamics of a hypertext system. We argue that the formulation besides being of interest in itself has a number of advantages over other methods of formalizing hypertext systems.