James Delgrande is a contemporary Canadian computer scientist and philosopher specializing in knowledge representation, belief revision, and nonmonotonic reasoning. A professor at Simon Fraser University, he has made significant contributions to formal epistemology and the logical foundations of AI, particularly in default reasoning and preference-based belief change.
Developed influential frameworks for belief revision and iterated belief change
Contributed foundational work on conditional logics for default reasoning
Advanced preference-based approaches to nonmonotonic reasoning
Co-edited key volumes on knowledge representation and reasoning
Long-standing professor in the School of Computing Science at Simon Fraser University