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Penalty logic and its Link with Dempster-Shafer Theory

Artificial Intelligence 2013-02-28 v1

Abstract

Penalty logic, introduced by Pinkas, associates to each formula of a knowledge base the price to pay if this formula is violated. Penalties may be used as a criterion for selecting preferred consistent subsets in an inconsistent knowledge base, thus inducing a non-monotonic inference relation. A precise formalization and the main properties of penalty logic and of its associated non-monotonic inference relation are given in the first part. We also show that penalty logic and Dempster-Shafer theory are related, especially in the infinitesimal case.

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@article{arxiv.1302.6804,
  title  = {Penalty logic and its Link with Dempster-Shafer Theory},
  author = {Florence Dupin de Saint-Cyr and Jerome Lang and Thomas Schiex},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1302.6804},
  year   = {2013}
}

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Appears in Proceedings of the Tenth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI1994)