A Model of Processing Inconsistency Knowledge Based on Social Belief Negotiation
一种基于群体信念协商的矛盾知识处理模型

An intelligent agent may receive information about its environment from several different sources.How should the agent merge these items of information into a single,consistent piece? Taking our lead from the contraction expansion approach to belief revision.We envisage a two-stage approach to this problem.The first stage consists of weakening the individual pieces of information into a form in which they can be consistently added together.The second stage then consists of simply adding together the information thus obtained.This paper is devoted mainly to the first stage of this process,which we call social contraction model.We consider both a postulational and a procedural approach to social contraction.We also provide a possible instantiations of this model.