On Computing Solutions to Belief Change Scenarios

  • Authors:
  • James P. Delgrande;Torsten Schaub;Hans Tompits;Stefan Woltran

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ECSQARU '01 Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Belief change scenarios were recently introduced as a framework for expressing different forms of belief change. In this paper, we show how belief revision and belief contraction (within belief change scenarios) can be axiomatised by means of quantified Boolean formulas. This approach has several benefits. First, it furnishes an axiomatic specification of belief change within belief change scenarios. Second, this axiomatisation allows us to identify upper bounds for the complexity of revision and contraction within belief change scenarios.We strengthen these upper bounds by providing strict complexity results for the considered reasoning tasks. Finally, we obtain an implementation of different forms. of belief change by appeal to the existing system QUIP.