Abductive logics in a belief revision framework

Journal of Logic, Language and Information

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 87-117

  Walliser, Bernard ^a   Zwirn, Denis ^b   Zwirn, Hervé ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS EST   (France)

^b Centre de Recherche en Epistemologie Appliquee Ecole Polytechnique   (France)

^c Inserm   (France)

Author keywords

Abduction; Belief revision; Explanation; Non monotonic reasoning

Indexed keywords

EID: 15544384590     PISSN: 09258531     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10849-005-2319-7     Document Type: Article

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