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Revision, Acceptability and Context [electronic resource] : Theoretical and Algorithmic Aspects / by Dov M. Gabbay, Odinaldo T. Rodrigues, Alessandra Russo.

By: Contributor(s): Series: Cognitive TechnologiesPublisher: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010Description: X, 386 p. online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783642141591
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Printed edition:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 006.3 23
LOC classification:
  • Q334-342
  • TJ210.2-211.495
Online resources:
Contents:
Background and Overview -- Introducing Revision Theory -- Stepwise Revision Operations -- Iterating Revision -- Structured Revision: Non-linear Methods for Information Change -- Algorithmic Context Revision -- Revision by Translation -- Object-Level Deletion -- Conclusions and Discussions.
In: Springer eBooksSummary: An important aspect in the formalisation of common-sense reasoning is the construction of a model of what an agent believes the world to be like to help in her reasoning process. This model is often incomplete or inaccurate, but new information can be used to refine it. The study of techniques that achieve this in a rational way is the task of the discipline of belief revision, with which this book is concerned. There are three key elements to the book's approach. Firstly, the methodology of logic by translation. A specific instance of this is the idea of revision by translation. Revision for a foreign logic is done via its translation into a well-known logic, usually classic logic. Secondly, the technique of meta-level/object-level movement, where we bring some operation defined at the meta-level of a logic into its object level. In this book, we bring the operation of deletion to the object level. Finally, through Labelled Deductive Systems, we use the context of the revision to finetune its operation and illustrate the idea through the presentation of various algorithms. The book is suitable for researchers and postgraduates in the areas of artificial intelligence, database theory, and logic.
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Background and Overview -- Introducing Revision Theory -- Stepwise Revision Operations -- Iterating Revision -- Structured Revision: Non-linear Methods for Information Change -- Algorithmic Context Revision -- Revision by Translation -- Object-Level Deletion -- Conclusions and Discussions.

An important aspect in the formalisation of common-sense reasoning is the construction of a model of what an agent believes the world to be like to help in her reasoning process. This model is often incomplete or inaccurate, but new information can be used to refine it. The study of techniques that achieve this in a rational way is the task of the discipline of belief revision, with which this book is concerned. There are three key elements to the book's approach. Firstly, the methodology of logic by translation. A specific instance of this is the idea of revision by translation. Revision for a foreign logic is done via its translation into a well-known logic, usually classic logic. Secondly, the technique of meta-level/object-level movement, where we bring some operation defined at the meta-level of a logic into its object level. In this book, we bring the operation of deletion to the object level. Finally, through Labelled Deductive Systems, we use the context of the revision to finetune its operation and illustrate the idea through the presentation of various algorithms. The book is suitable for researchers and postgraduates in the areas of artificial intelligence, database theory, and logic.

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