On a Linear Representation Theory for Quantitative Belief Change

  • Authors:
  • Akira Fusaoka

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • AI '02 Proceedings of the 15th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Advances in Artificial Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

In this paper, we present a method to deal with the quantitative belief change based on the linear algebra. Since an epistemic state of agent is represented by a set of the subjective probability, which she conceived for each possible world, we can regard this epistemic state as a point of vector space which spanned by the basis of possible worlds. The knowledge which causes the belief change is treated as a matrix on this vector space. The observation of new fact about the current world is characterized as a projection matrix. On the other hand, the knowledge that some action changes the world is represented as a basis transformation matrix. In this framework, we present a unified method of belief change both for propositional and probabilistic knowledge so that the logical or probabilistic reasoning is reduced to the matrix calculation.