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Conditionals in Nonmonotonic Reasoning and Belief Revision

Considering Conditionals as Agents

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  • © 2001

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Editors:
  1. Gabriele Kern-Isberner

    1. Fachbereich Informatik LG Praktische Informatik VI, FernUniversität Hagen, Hagen

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 2087)

Part of the book sub series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-X
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  2. Introduction

    Pages 1-10

  3. Belief Revision and Nonmonotonic Reasoning — State of the Art

    Pages 11-26

  4. Conditionals

    Pages 27-52

  5. Revising Epistemic States by Conditional Beliefs

    Pages 53-72

  6. Characterizing the Principle of Minimum Cross-Entropy

    Pages 73-90

  7. Reasoning at Optimum Entropy

    Pages 91-101

  8. Belief Revision and Nonmonotonic Reasoning — Revisited

    Pages 103-117

  9. Knowledge Discovery by Following Conditional Structures

    Pages 119-135

  10. Algorithms and Implementations

    Pages 137-140

  11. Conclusion

    Pages 141-143

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 145-190
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About this book

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 different situations. Therefore, conditionals are important, but also quite problematic objects in knowledge representation.
This book presents a new approach to conditionals which captures their dynamic, non-proportional nature particularly well by considering conditionals as agents shifting possible worlds in order to establish relationships and beliefs. This understanding of conditionals yields a rich theory which makes complex interactions between conditionals transparent and operational. Moreover,it provides a unifying and enhanced framework for knowledge representation, nonmonotonic reasoning, belief revision,and even for knowledge discovery.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Fachbereich Informatik LG Praktische Informatik VI, FernUniversität Hagen, Hagen

    Gabriele Kern-Isberner

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Conditionals in Nonmonotonic Reasoning and Belief Revision

  • Book Subtitle: Considering Conditionals as Agents

  • Editors: Gabriele Kern-Isberner

  • Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44600-1

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2001

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-42367-6Published: 25 July 2001

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-44600-2Published: 29 June 2003

  • Series ISSN: 0302-9743

  • Series E-ISSN: 1611-3349

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 194

  • Topics: Artificial Intelligence, Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages

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