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AAAI
1996
13 years 9 months ago
Plausibility Measures and Default Reasoning
In recent years, a number of different semantics for defaults have been proposed, such as preferential structures, semantics, possibilistic structures, and
Nir Friedman, Joseph Y. Halpern
IJCAI
1993
13 years 9 months ago
Statistical Foundations for Default Reasoning
We describe a new approach to default reasoning, based on a principle of indi erence among possible worlds. We interpret default rules as extreme statistical statements, thus obta...
Fahiem Bacchus, Adam J. Grove, Joseph Y. Halpern, ...
AI
2000
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Belief functions and default reasoning
We present a new approach to dealing with default information based on the theory of belief functions. Our semantic structures, inspired by Adams' -semantics, are epsilon-beli...
Salem Benferhat, Alessandro Saffiotti, Philippe Sm...
FLAIRS
2008
13 years 10 months ago
Preference-Based Default Reasoning
It is well-known that default reasoning and preference-based decision making both make use of preferential relations between possible worlds resp. alternatives. In this paper, we ...
Manuela Ritterskamp, Gabriele Kern-Isberner
SIGLEX
1991
13 years 11 months ago
Presuppositions and Default Reasoning: A Study in Lexical Pragmatics
Explaining how the meaning of words relate to the meaning of the utterance in which they are used is of utmost importance. The most common approaches view the meaning of an uttera...
Robert E. Mercer