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Belief revision is the process that incorporates, in a consistent way, a new piece of information, called input, into a belief base. When both belief bases and inputs are propositional formulas, a set of natural and rational properties, known as AGM postulates, have been proposed to define genuine revision operations. This paper addresses the following important issue : How to revise a partially pre-ordered information (representing initial beliefs) with a new partially pre-ordered information (representing inputs) while preserving AGM postulates? We first provide a particular representation of partial pre-orders (called units) using the concept of closed sets of units. Then we restate AGM postulates in this framework by defining counterparts of the notions of logical entailment and logical consistency. In the second part of the paper, we provide some examples of revision operations that respect our set of postulates. We also prove that our revision methods extend well-known lexicographic revision and natural revision for both cases where the input is either a single propositional formula or a total pre-order.
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Ma, J., Benferhat, S., Liu, W. (2012). Revision over Partial Pre-orders: A Postulational Study. In: Hüllermeier, E., Link, S., Fober, T., Seeger, B. (eds) Scalable Uncertainty Management. SUM 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7520. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33362-0_17
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