A Model-Based Algorithm for Propositional Belief Revision

• Published in: Revista IEEE América Latina Vol. 13; no. 4; pp. 1055 - 1060
• Main Authors: Zacarias, Fernando, De Ita, Guillermo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Los Alamitos IEEE 01.04.2015; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Adaptation models; Algorithms; Americas; Artificial intelligence; Automated Reasoning; Automatic reasoning; Automation; Belief Revision; Buildings; Cognition; Construction; Inference algorithms; Mathematical models; Model-Based Procedures; Proposals; Propositional Inference; Reasoning
• ISSN: 1548-0992; 1548-0992
• DOI: 10.1109/TLA.2015.7106357

Propositional Inference and belief revision are quite relevant to Automatic Reasoning. Given a KB Σ in DF and new information Σ' in CF, we show a deterministic and complete linear-time algorithm to decide Σ ⊢ Σ'. We adapt the previous algorithm to build a model-based proposal for belief revision: Σ' = Σ ∘ P. Our proposal is based on Dalal's method of building a new DF Σ' consistent with p and whose models have the property to hold minimum changes with models of the original KB Σ. We show that, in the worst case, our proposal of belief revision involves the solution of satisfiability instances formed by subformulas of p, which implies the solution of NP-complete problems.