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Reason maintenance

Reason maintenance (also Truth maintenance) is a knowledge representation approach to efficient handling of inferred information that is not explicitly stored. Reason maintenance distinguishes between base facts, which can later be rejected, and derived facts. As such it differs from belief revision which, in its basic form, assumes that all facts are…

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Reason maintenance

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Triples51
Avg. degree1.89
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Reason maintenance → AAAI, AAAI'87, AAAI'90, AI, AI Memo, An, Applications, Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Assumption Based Reasoning, Bridgeland, Computing, DATMS, Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Distributed Truth Maintenance, Doyle, ECAI'90, Eighth National Conference, Ellis Horwood, Foundations

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Reason maintenancerelated to Other referencesBridgeland0.60section
Reason maintenancerelated to Other referencesHuhns0.60section
Reason maintenancerelated to Other referencesDistributed Truth Maintenance0.60section
Reason maintenancerelated to Other referencesProceedings0.60section
Reason maintenancerelated to Other referencesAAAI0.60section
Reason maintenancerelated to Other referencesEighth National Conference0.60section
Reason maintenancerelated to Other referencesArtificial Intelligence0.60section
Reason maintenancerelated to Other referencesKleer0.60section
Reason maintenancerelated to Other referencesAn0.60section
Reason maintenancerelated to Other referencesTMS0.60section
Reason maintenancerelated to Other referencesDoyle0.60section
Reason maintenancerelated to Other referencesTruth Maintenance System0.60section

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