Asking about possibilities — revision and update semantics for subjunctive queries (Extended report)

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OriginalspracheEnglisch
Titel des SammelwerksFoundations of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
Herausgeber/-innenGerhard Lakemeyer, Bernhard Nebel
Herausgeber (Verlag)Springer Verlag
Seiten250-274
Seitenumfang25
ISBN (Print)9783540581079
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 1994
VeranstaltungWorkshop on Theoretical Foundations of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning held in conjunction with 10th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ECAI 1992 - Vienna, Österreich
Dauer: 3 Aug. 19927 Aug. 1992

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NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Band810 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (elektronisch)1611-3349

Abstract

The AGM rationality postulates for belief revision play an important role in the formalization of subjunctive queries over knowledge bases. However, the well known triviality results by Gardenfors in connection with the Ramsey Test make defining a query semantics corresponding to these rationality postulates a difficult task. While existing approaches avoid the triviality results by restricting the postulates in certain ways, we show that an exact translation into a query semantics is possible. The resulting semantics allows for the first time the integration of subjunctive queries evaluated according to a revision semantics corresponding to the AGM rationality postulates with an update operator corresponding to the update semantics formalized by Katsuno, Mendelzon and Grahne. The query semantics extends usual conditional implication by defining the concepts of possibility and necessity relative to a knowledge base. Additionally, based on this semantics, we present a formal account of splitting a knowledge base into two parts. We propose a specific revision function and show that this function is optimal in the sense, that after revision as few conditional consequences as possible are changed.

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Asking about possibilities — revision and update semantics for subjunctive queries (Extended report). / Nejdl, Wolfgang; Banagl, Markus.
Foundations of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning. Hrsg. / Gerhard Lakemeyer; Bernhard Nebel. Springer Verlag, 1994. S. 250-274 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Band 810 LNAI).

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Nejdl, W & Banagl, M 1994, Asking about possibilities — revision and update semantics for subjunctive queries (Extended report). in G Lakemeyer & B Nebel (Hrsg.), Foundations of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), Bd. 810 LNAI, Springer Verlag, S. 250-274, Workshop on Theoretical Foundations of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning held in conjunction with 10th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ECAI 1992, Vienna, Österreich, 3 Aug. 1992. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-58107-3_15
Nejdl, W., & Banagl, M. (1994). Asking about possibilities — revision and update semantics for subjunctive queries (Extended report). In G. Lakemeyer, & B. Nebel (Hrsg.), Foundations of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (S. 250-274). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Band 810 LNAI). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-58107-3_15
Nejdl W, Banagl M. Asking about possibilities — revision and update semantics for subjunctive queries (Extended report). in Lakemeyer G, Nebel B, Hrsg., Foundations of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning. Springer Verlag. 1994. S. 250-274. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)). doi: 10.1007/3-540-58107-3_15
Nejdl, Wolfgang ; Banagl, Markus. / Asking about possibilities — revision and update semantics for subjunctive queries (Extended report). Foundations of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning. Hrsg. / Gerhard Lakemeyer ; Bernhard Nebel. Springer Verlag, 1994. S. 250-274 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).
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