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From Semantic to Syntactic Approaches to Information Combination in Possibilistic Logic

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This paper proposes syntactic combination rules for merging uncertain propositional knowledge bases provided by different sources of information, in the framework of possibilistic logic. These rules are the counterparts of combination rules which can be applied to the possibility distributions (defined on the set of possible worlds), which represent the semantics of each propositional knowledge base. Combination modes taking into account the levels of conflict, the relative reliability of the sources, or having reinforcement effects are considered.

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  • Belief Revision
  • Combination Rule
  • Possibility Distribution
  • Combination Mode
  • Possibilistic Logic

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  1. Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (I.R.I.T.), Université Paul Sabatier, 118 route de Narbonne, 31062, Toulouse, France

    Salem Benferhat, Didier Dubois & Henri Prade

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Benferhat, S., Dubois, D., Prade, H. (1998). From Semantic to Syntactic Approaches to Information Combination in Possibilistic Logic. In: Bouchon-Meunier, B. (eds) Aggregation and Fusion of Imperfect Information. Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, vol 12. Physica, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-1889-5_9

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