Majority merging by adaptive counting.

The present paper introduces a belief merging procedure by majority using the standard format of Adaptive Logics. The core structure of the logic ADM ( Adaptive Doxastic Merging by Counting) consists in the formulation of the conflicts arising from the belief bases of the agents involved in the pro...

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Publicado en:Synthese Vol. 165; no. 2; pp. 203 - 224
Autores principales: Primiero, Giuseppe, Meheus, Joke
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Springer Nature Nov2008
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Sumario:The present paper introduces a belief merging procedure by majority using the standard format of Adaptive Logics. The core structure of the logic ADM ( Adaptive Doxastic Merging by Counting) consists in the formulation of the conflicts arising from the belief bases of the agents involved in the procedure. A strategy is then defined both semantically and proof-theoretically which selects the consistent contents answering to a majority principle. The results obtained are proven to be equivalent to a standard majority operator for bases with partial support.