Choosing Your Beliefs

نویسندگان

  • Guido Boella
  • Célia da Costa Pereira
  • Gabriella Pigozzi
  • Andrea Tettamanzi
  • Leon van der Torre
چکیده

This paper presents and discusses a novel approach to indeterministic belief revision. An indeterministic belief revision operator assumes that, when an agent is confronted with a new piece of information, it can revise its belief sets in more than one way. We define a rational agent not only in terms of what it believes but also of what it desires and wants to achieve. Hence, we propose that the agent’s goals play a role in the choice of (possibly) one of the several available revision options. Properties of the new belief revision mechanism are also

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تاریخ انتشار 2007