Reasoning without minimality

Abhaya Nayak, Norman Foo

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Abstract

Various forms of non-monotonic reasoning thrive on minimal change in some form or other. In general, the principle of minimal change prescribes choosing the best from a given set of alternatives. A dual of this principle, which has not drawn much attention from the researchers in the field, is to reject the worst from a given set of alternatives instead. This paper explores the use of this principle in the context of belief revision, which has known connections with plausible reasoning. Apart from arguing that the suggested operation is not excessively weak, we provide a set of "revision postulates" that demonstrably characterises this “non minimal” belief revision operation.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationPRICAI’98: Topics in Artificial Intelligence
Subtitle of host publication5th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Singapore, November 22–27, 1998 Proceedings
EditorsHing-Yan Lee, Hiroshi Motoda
Place of PublicationBerlin
PublisherSpringer, Springer Nature
Pages122-133
Number of pages12
ISBN (Electronic)9783540494614
ISBN (Print)9783540652717
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1998
Externally publishedYes
Event5th Pacific Rim Intemational Conference on Artificial Intelligence, PRICAI 1998 - Singapore, Singapore
Duration: 22 Nov 199827 Nov 1998

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science
PublisherSpringer Berlin Heidelberg
Volume1531
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Other

Other5th Pacific Rim Intemational Conference on Artificial Intelligence, PRICAI 1998
Country/TerritorySingapore
CitySingapore
Period22/11/9827/11/98

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