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Inconsistency Tolerance

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  • © 2005

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 3300)

Part of the book sub series: Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues (LNTCS)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

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Inconsistency arises in many areas in advanced computing. Often inconsistency is unwanted, for example in the specification for a plan or in sensor fusion in robotics; however, sometimes inconsistency is useful. Whether inconsistency is unwanted or useful, there is a need to develop tolerance to inconsistency in application technologies such as databases, knowledge bases, and software systems. To address this situation, inconsistency tolerance is being built on foundational technologies for identifying and analyzing inconsistency in information, for representing and reasoning with inconsistent information, for resolving inconsistent information, and for merging inconsistent information.

The idea for this book arose out of a Dagstuhl Seminar on the topic held in summer 2003. The nine chapters in this first book devoted to the subject of inconsistency tolerance were carefully invited and anonymously reviewed. The book provides an exciting introduction to this new field.

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Computer Science, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

    Leopoldo Bertossi

  • Department of Computer Science, University College London, London, UK

    Anthony Hunter

  • Institut für Informatik, Universität Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

    Torsten Schaub

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