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A New Rational Algorithm for View Updating in Relational Databases
The dynamics of belief and knowledge is one of the major components of any
autonomous system that should be able to incorporate new pieces of information.
In order to apply the rationality result of belief dynamics theory to various
practical problems, it should be generalized in two respects: first it should
allow a certain part of belief to be declared as immutable; and second, the
belief state need not be deductively closed. Such a generalization of belief
dynamics, referred to as base dynamics, is presented in this paper, along with
the concept of a generalized revision algorithm for knowledge bases (Horn or
Horn logic with stratified negation). We show that knowledge base dynamics has
an interesting connection with kernel change via hitting set and abduction. In
this paper, we show how techniques from disjunctive logic programming can be
used for efficient (deductive) database updates. The key idea is to transform
the given database together with the update request into a disjunctive
(datalog) logic program and apply disjunctive techniques (such as minimal model
reasoning) to solve the original update problem. The approach extends and
integrates standard techniques for efficient query answering and integrity
checking. The generation of a hitting set is carried out through a hyper
tableaux calculus and magic set that is focused on the goal of minimality.Comment: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1301.515
Do Hard SAT-Related Reasoning Tasks Become Easier in the Krom Fragment?
Many reasoning problems are based on the problem of satisfiability (SAT).
While SAT itself becomes easy when restricting the structure of the formulas in
a certain way, the situation is more opaque for more involved decision
problems. We consider here the CardMinSat problem which asks, given a
propositional formula and an atom , whether is true in some
cardinality-minimal model of . This problem is easy for the Horn
fragment, but, as we will show in this paper, remains -complete (and
thus -hard) for the Krom fragment (which is given by formulas in
CNF where clauses have at most two literals). We will make use of this fact to
study the complexity of reasoning tasks in belief revision and logic-based
abduction and show that, while in some cases the restriction to Krom formulas
leads to a decrease of complexity, in others it does not. We thus also consider
the CardMinSat problem with respect to additional restrictions to Krom formulas
towards a better understanding of the tractability frontier of such problems
Reason Maintenance - State of the Art
This paper describes state of the art in reason maintenance with a focus on its future usage in the KiWi project. To give a bigger picture of the field, it also mentions closely related issues such as non-monotonic logic and paraconsistency. The paper is organized as follows: first, two motivating scenarios referring to semantic wikis are presented which are then used to introduce the different reason maintenance techniques
AGM-Style Revision of Beliefs and Intentions from a Database Perspective (Preliminary Version)
We introduce a logic for temporal beliefs and intentions based on Shoham's
database perspective. We separate strong beliefs from weak beliefs. Strong
beliefs are independent from intentions, while weak beliefs are obtained by
adding intentions to strong beliefs and everything that follows from that. We
formalize coherence conditions on strong beliefs and intentions. We provide
AGM-style postulates for the revision of strong beliefs and intentions. We show
in a representation theorem that a revision operator satisfying our postulates
can be represented by a pre-order on interpretations of the beliefs, together
with a selection function for the intentions
Abstract Argumentation / Persuasion / Dynamics
The act of persuasion, a key component in rhetoric argumentation, may be
viewed as a dynamics modifier. We extend Dung's frameworks with acts of
persuasion among agents, and consider interactions among attack, persuasion and
defence that have been largely unheeded so far. We characterise basic notions
of admissibilities in this framework, and show a way of enriching them through,
effectively, CTL (computation tree logic) encoding, which also permits
importation of the theoretical results known to the logic into our
argumentation frameworks. Our aim is to complement the growing interest in
coordination of static and dynamic argumentation.Comment: Arisaka R., Satoh K. (2018) Abstract Argumentation / Persuasion /
Dynamics. In: Miller T., Oren N., Sakurai Y., Noda I., Savarimuthu B., Cao
Son T. (eds) PRIMA 2018: Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems.
PRIMA 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11224. Springer, Cha
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