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Sufficientarian Propositional Belief Merging

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Multi-Agent Systems and Agreement Technologies (EUMAS 2016, AT 2016)

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In this paper, we will introduce the theory of sufficientarianism in belief merging. Originally, there are two main subclasses of belief merging operators: majority operators which are related to the theory of utilitarianism, and arbitration operators which are related to egalitarianism. We will show that sufficientarianism brings novelties to the area by satisfying new logical postulates different from those satisfied by majority or arbitration operators.

This research is supported by CNPq and CAPES.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil

    Henrique Viana & João Alcântara

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  1. King’s College London, London, United Kingdom

    Natalia Criado Pacheco

  2. Polytechnic University of Valencia, Valencia, Portugal

    Carlos Carrascosa

  3. Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain

    Nardine Osman

  4. Polytechnic University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain

    Vicente Julián Inglada

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Viana, H., Alcântara, J. (2017). Sufficientarian Propositional Belief Merging. In: Criado Pacheco, N., Carrascosa, C., Osman, N., Julián Inglada, V. (eds) Multi-Agent Systems and Agreement Technologies. EUMAS AT 2016 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10207. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59294-7_35

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