Belief Change

Community employs formal models in the investigation of changes in belief states and databases

Logic of theory change was the starting-point of a large, rapidly growing literature

Valuable for researchers in logic, philosophy, and artificial intelligence

Inhalt

Motivation.- History.- The AGM Model.- Belief Sets.- Equivalent Characterizations.- Safe and Kernel Contraction.- Criticism of the Model.- Belief Bases.- Iterated Change.- Multiple Change.- Extended Representations of Belief States.- Alternative Operators of Change.- Multiagent Belief Change.- Applications and Connections.- Implementations.- Conclusions.- References.