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Pertinence links in inheritance networks allow one to assert the relevance or the irrelevance of an inheritance link with respect to a given concept. Although pertinence links were included in some of the earliest knowledge-representation formalisms like NETL, they have been omitted in more recent formal accounts of path-based inheritance reasoning. In this paper, we formalize and interpret pertinence links in the context of the important family of upward path-based inheritance reasoners.
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Grégoire, E. (1991). Formalizing pertinence links in inheritance reasoning: Preliminary report. In: Kruse, R., Siegel, P. (eds) Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Uncertainty. ECSQARU 1991. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 548. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-54659-6_88
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