Buch, Englisch, Band 336, 352 Seiten
Buch, Englisch, Band 336, 352 Seiten
Reihe: Dissertations in Artificial Intelligence
ISBN: 978-1-60750-960-8
Verlag: IOS Press
This book focuses on two major issues that arise when representing knowledge with probabilistic conditional logic. On the one hand, we look at the problem of contradictory information that, e.g., arises when multiple experts share their knowledge in order to come up with a common knowledge base consisting of probabilistic conditionals. As in classical logic this is a severe problem because inconsistency of a knowledge base forbids application of model-based inductive inference approaches such as reasoning based on the principle of maximum entropy. On the other hand, we investigate an extension of the syntactical and semantical notions of probabilistic conditional logic to the relational case. We also extend the approach of reasoning based on the principle of maximum entropy to the framework of relational probabilistic conditional logic and investigate its properties.