Belief Change

Belief change is an emerging field of artificial intelligence and information science dedicated to the dynamics of information and the present book provides a state-of-the-art picture of its formal foundations. It deals with the addition, deletion and combination of pieces of information and, more g...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Gabbay, Dov M. (Editor), Smets, Philippe (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1998, 1998
Edition:1st ed. 1998
Series:Handbook of Defeasible Reasoning and Uncertainty Management Systems
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Revising, Updating and Combining Knowledge
  • Revision of Belief Sets and Belief Bases
  • How Hard is it to Revise a Belief Base?
  • Conditionals and the Ramsey Test
  • Logics for Belief Base Updating
  • Reasoning about Merged Information
  • Numerical Representation of Uncertainty
  • Belief Change Rules in Ordinal and Numerical Uncertainty Theories
  • Parallel Combination of Information Sources
  • Table of Contents to Volume 1
  • Table of Contents to Volume 2