Residual contraction

In this paper, we propose and axiomatically characterize residual contractions, a new kind of contraction operators for belief bases. We establish that the class of partial meet contractions is a strict subclass of the class of residual contractions. We identify an extra condition that may be added...

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Main Author: Garapa, Marco (author)
Other Authors: Reis, Maurício D. L. (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2022
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10400.13/4115
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:digituma.uma.pt:10400.13/4115
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Summary:In this paper, we propose and axiomatically characterize residual contractions, a new kind of contraction operators for belief bases. We establish that the class of partial meet contractions is a strict subclass of the class of residual contractions. We identify an extra condition that may be added to the definition of residual contractions, which is such that the class of residual contractions that satisfy it coincides with the class of partial meet contrac tions. We investigate the interrelations in the sense of (strict) inclusion among the class of residual contractions and other classes of well known contraction operators for belief bases.