Belief Revision in Non-Classical Logics

✍ Scribed by Márcio Moretto Ribeiro

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag London
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 126
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Computer Science
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Since the advent of the Semantic Web, interest in the dynamics of ontologies (ontology evolution) has grown significantly. Belief revision presents a good theoretical framework for dealing with this problem; however, classical belief revision is not well suited for logics such as Description Logics.

Belief Revision in Non-Classical Logics presents a framework which can be applied to a wide class of logics that include – besides most Description Logics such as the ones behind OWL – Horn Logic and Intuitionistic logic, amongst others. The author also presents algorithms for the most important constructions in belief bases. Researchers and practitioners in theoretical computing will find this an invaluable resource.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-6
Consequence....Pages 7-17
Logics....Pages 19-44
Classical Belief Revision....Pages 45-70
AGM Contraction in Non-Classical Logics....Pages 71-82
AGM Revision in Logics Without Negation....Pages 83-90
Base Revision in Logics Without Negation....Pages 91-104
Algorithms for Belief Bases....Pages 105-113
Conclusion....Pages 115-117
Back Matter....Pages 119-120

✦ Subjects

Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages; Mathematical Logic and Foundations; Epistemology; Logic; Ontology