Structured belief bases: A practical approach to prioritised base revision

Dov Gabbay, Odinaldo Rodrigues

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Abstract

In this paper we present Structured Belief Bases (SBBs), a framework to reason about belief change. Structured Belief Bases can be considered as a special case of prioritised base revision, where the components of the base are allowed to be structured bases as well. This allows for the representation of complex levels of priority between sentences. Each component is resolved into a sentence via a revision operator taking the ordering into account. By adopting a right associative interpretation of the operator we avoid many of the problems with iteration faced by revision operators complying with the AGM postulates. New beliefs can be accepted by simply incorporating them into the base with highest priority.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationQualitative and Quantitative Practical Reasoning - 1st International Joint Conference on Qualitative and Quantitative Practical Reasoning, ECSQARU-FAPR 1997, Proceedings
EditorsDov M. Gabbay, Hans-Jurgen Ohlbach, Rudolf Kruse, Andreas Nonnengart
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages267-281
Number of pages15
ISBN (Print)3540630953, 9783540630951
DOIs
StatePublished - 1997
Externally publishedYes
Event1st International Joint Conference on Qualitative and Quantitative Practical Reasoning, ECSQARU-FAPR 1997 - Bad Honnef, Germany
Duration: 9 Jun 199712 Jun 1997

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume1244
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference1st International Joint Conference on Qualitative and Quantitative Practical Reasoning, ECSQARU-FAPR 1997
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityBad Honnef
Period9/06/9712/06/97

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Publisher Copyright:
© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1997.

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