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Nonmonotonic Reasoning via Possibility Theory

Artificial Intelligence 2013-04-10 v1

Abstract

We introduce the operation of possibility qualification and show how. this modal-like operator can be used to represent "typical" or default knowledge in a theory of nonmonotonic reasoning. We investigate the representational power of this approach by looking at a number of prototypical problems from the nonmonotonic reasoning literature. In particular we look at the so called Yale shooting problem and its relation to priority in default reasoning.

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@article{arxiv.1304.2381,
  title  = {Nonmonotonic Reasoning via Possibility Theory},
  author = {Ronald R. Yager},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1304.2381},
  year   = {2013}
}

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Appears in Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI1988)

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