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Williams, MA. (1998). Applications of belief revision. In: Freitag, B., Decker, H., Kifer, M., Voronkov, A. (eds) Transactions and Change in Logic Databases. DYNAMICS 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1472. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0055503

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