A Uniied Approach to Inheritance with Connicts

Nonmonotonic reasoning is reasoning which allows both a statement and its negation simultaneously to attain some degree of reliability. Such situations are called ambiguous. In this paper we investigate and describe a new approach for multiple inheritance with connict, which concentrates on nding the degree of plausibility of the statement and of its negation. We identify a new implicit default measure simultaneously between the connict classes and their shared property which we call default correlation (DC). To measure the strength of one class with respect to the other we compare their DC levels. The class with higher DC is the extension that the network will follow. This approach produces unambiguous results when applied to any inheritance hierarchy with exceptions.