Conditionals in Nonmonotonic Reasoning and Belief Revision Considering Conditionals as Agents

Conditionals are omnipresent, in everyday life as well as in scientific environments; they represent generic knowledge acquired inductively or learned from books. They tie a flexible and highly interrelated network of connections along which reasoning is possible and which can be applied to differen...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kern-Isberner, Gabriele
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2001, 2001
Edition:1st ed. 2001
Series:Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Belief Revision and Nonmonotonic Reasoning — State of the Art
  • Conditionals
  • Revising Epistemic States by Conditional Beliefs
  • Characterizing the Principle of Minimum Cross-Entropy
  • Reasoning at Optimum Entropy
  • Belief Revision and Nonmonotonic Reasoning — Revisited
  • Knowledge Discovery by Following Conditional Structures
  • Algorithms and Implementations
  • Conclusion