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    Classic AI: search, logic & planning· 1979

    A truth maintenance system

    Jon Doyle (first author) · 1979

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    DOI 10.1016/0004-3702(79)90008-0OpenAlex W1976303542

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    Why it matters

    Established dependency tracking and belief revision for reasoning systems.

    Condensed from the expert lists' notes.

    The record

    First released
    1979 (from OpenAlex)
    Citations
    1,785 citations, as counted by OpenAlex (CC0)
    Named by
    both expert lists
    Score
    0.471 · computed rank 266 · consensus 0.56, must-read 0.5, citations percentile 0.722 (1970s · classic-ai), awards 0, existing lists 0. Method

    Editor's notes

    • Readability check: pass: Doyle's TMS, a classic of knowledge representation. (AI draft (Claude), not yet reviewed, 2026-10-29)

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    Catalogue data from OpenAlex (CC0), Crossref (CC0 metadata; no abstracts are shown), arXiv, and Papers With Code (CC BY-SA 4.0). Each count names its source. See the method.