Belief Revision in the Context of Abductive Explanation
Siddarth Subramanian · 1992
This proposal presents an approach to explanation that incorporates the paradigms of belief revision and abduction. We present an algorithm that combines these techniques and a system called Brace that is a preliminary implementation of this algorithm. We show the applicability of the Brace approach to a wide range of domains including scienti c discovery, device diagnosis and plan recognition. Finally, we describe our proposals for a new implementation, Assimilation of new data into an existing knowledge base is a problem that has been approached from various di erent angles in the Arti cial Intelligence community. One task that an agent may perform on a new datum is to explain it in terms of existing knowledge in order to maintain a structured and more coherent knowledge base. The