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CORR
2000
Springer
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The lexicographic closure as a revision process
The connections between nonmonotonic reasoning and belief revision are well-known. A central problem in the area of nonmonotonic reasoning is the problem of default entailment, i.e...
Richard Booth
KR
1989
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Impediments to Universal Preference-Based Default Theories
Research on nonmonotonic and default reasoning has identified several important criteria for preferring alternative default inferences. The theories of reasoning based on each of...
Jon Doyle, Michael P. Wellman
AMAST
2000
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Distance Functions for Defaults in Reactive Systems
Default reasoning has become an important topic in software engineering. In particular, defaults can be used to revise speci cations, to enhance reusability of existing systems, an...
Sofia Guerra
CORR
2000
Springer
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Declarative Representation of Revision Strategies
Abstract. We introduce a nonmonotonic framework for belief revision in which reasoning about the reliability of different pieces of information based on meta-knowledge about the in...
Gerhard Brewka
SIGLEX
1991
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Presuppositions and Default Reasoning: A Study in Lexical Pragmatics
Explaining how the meaning of words relate to the meaning of the utterance in which they are used is of utmost importance. The most common approaches view the meaning of an uttera...
Robert E. Mercer