Belief Change (1998) (Handbook of Defeasible Reasoning and Uncertainty Management Systems #3)

Synopsis

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 generally, with the revision, updating and fusion of knowledge bases. The book offers an extensive coverage of, and seeks to reconcile, two traditions in the kinematics of belief that often ignore each other - the symbolic and the numerical (often probabilistic) approaches. Moreover, the work encompasses both revision and fusion problems, even though these two are also commonly investigated by different communities. Finally, the book presents the numerical view of belief change, beyond the probabilistic framework, covering such approaches as possibility theory, belief functions and convex gambles. The work thus presents a unified view of belief change operators, drawing from a widely scattered literature embracing philosophical logic, artificial intelligence, uncertainty modelling and database systems. The material is a clearly organised guide to the literature on the dynamics of epistemic states, knowledge bases and uncertain information, suitable for scholars and graduate students familiar with applied logic, knowledge representation and uncertain reasoning.

Copyright:

1998

Book Details

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Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9789401150545

Related ISBNs:

9780792351627

Publisher:

Springer Netherlands

Date of Addition:

07/24/20

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N/A

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Computers and Internet, Mathematics and Statistics, Philosophy

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This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Dov M. Gabbay

Edited by:

Philippe Smets