Belief Revision

This book contains a collection of research articles on belief revision that are right up to date and an introductory chapter that presents a survey of current research in the area and the fundamentals of the theory.

Peter Gärdenfors (Edited by)

9780521545648, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 4 December 2003

284 pages
24.6 x 19 x 1.6 cm, 0.518 kg

Belief revision is a topic of much interest in theoretical computer science and logic, and it forms a central problem in research into artificial intelligence. In simple terms: how do you update a database of knowledge in the light of new information? What if the new information is in conflict with something that was previously held to be true? An intelligent system should be able to accommodate all such cases. This book contains a collection of research articles on belief revision that are completely up to date and an introductory chapter that presents a survey of current research in the area and the fundamentals of the theory. Thus this volume will be useful as a textbook on belief revision.

1. Conditionals and knowledge base update
2. Reason maintenance and belief revision
3. Belief revision in probability theory
4. Belief revision and a theory of communication
5. A dyadic representation of belief
6. On the difference between updating a knowledge base and revising it
7. Belief revision
8. Planning from first principles.

Subject Areas: Artificial intelligence [UYQ], Philosophy of mathematics [PBB]