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Social contraction and belief negotiation

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Social contraction and belief negotiation
An intelligent agent may receive information about its environment from several different sources. How should the agent merge these items of information into a single, consistent piece? Taking our lead from the contraction + expansion approach to belief revision, we envisage a two-stage approach to this problem. The first stage consists of weakening the individual pieces of information into a form in which they can be consistently added together. The second, trivial, stage then consists of simply adding together the information thus obtained. This paper is devoted mainly to the first stage of this process, which we call social contraction. We consider both a postulational and a procedural approach to social contraction. The latter builds on the author
Richard Booth
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Type Journal
Year 2006
Where INFFUS
Authors Richard Booth
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