On Localities of Knowledge Inconsistency

  • Authors:
  • Du Zhang

  • Affiliations:
  • California State University, USA

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Software Science and Computational Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Inconsistency is commonplace in the real world in long-term memory and knowledge based systems. Managing inconsistency is considered a hallmark of the plasticity of human intelligence. Belief revision is an important mental process that underpins human intelligence. To facilitate belief revision, it is necessary to know the localities and contexts of inconsistency and how different types of inconsistency are clustered. In this paper, the author provides a formal definition of locality of inconsistency and describes how to identify clusters of inconsistent circumstances in a knowledge base. The results pave the way for a disciplined approach to manage knowledge inconsistency.