Belief change in branching time: AGM-consistency and iterated revision


Συγγραφέας: Giacomo Bonanno


Giacomo Bonanno: Belief change in branching time: AGM-consistency and iterated revision (pdf, 40 pages)
We study belief change in the branching-time structures introduced in [8]. First, we identify a property of branching-time frames that is equivalent (when the set of states is nite) to AGM-consistency, which is de ned as follows. A frame is AGM-consistent if the partial belief revision function associated with an arbitrary state-instant pair and an arbitrary model based on that frame can be extended to a full belief revision function that satis es the AGM postulates. Second, we provide a set of modal axioms that characterize the class of AGM-consistent frames within the modal logic introduced in [8]. Third, we introduce a generalization of AGM belief revision functions that allows a clear statement of principles of iterated belief revision and discuss iterated revision both semantically and syntactically.