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Believability Based Iterated Belief Revision

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PRICAI 2004: Trends in Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI 2004)

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Classical iterated belief revision methods rarely take into account the impact of the uncertain information. In this paper, an approach of believability based iterated belief revision(BIBR) is presented. BIBR relates the belief revision in the multi-agent system to the believability of information, which plays an important role in the revision process. Based on the Dempster-Shafer theory of evidence and believability function formalism, the believability of information can be obtained. The revised belief set by BIBR is dependent on the history of revision, namely, on the information received prior to the current belief set. It is proved that the BIBR operation meets the AGM postulates for belief revision and the Darwiche and Pearl postulates for iterated belief revision.

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  1. State Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China

    Pei Yang, Yang Gao, Zhaoqian Chen & Shifu Chen

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  1. Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, Centre for Quantum Computation and Intelligent Systems, and Australian ACS National Committee for Artificial Intelligence, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

    Chengqi Zhang

  2. Department of Computer Science, Auckland University of Technology, 1020, Auckland, New Zealand

    Hans W. Guesgen

  3. Artificial Intelligence Technology Centre, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand

    Wai-Kiang Yeap

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Yang, P., Gao, Y., Chen, Z., Chen, S. (2004). Believability Based Iterated Belief Revision. In: Zhang, C., W. Guesgen, H., Yeap, WK. (eds) PRICAI 2004: Trends in Artificial Intelligence. PRICAI 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3157. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-28633-2_102

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