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Simultaneous Events: Conflicts and Preferences

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Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty (ECSQARU 2001)

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Existing methods for representing conflicting simultaneous events employ the notion of cancellations; which are used in order to stipulate that the effects of certain events cancel the effects of other, conflicting, events. However it is argued that this technique is inadequate when it comes to the representation of conflicting defeasible events. Consequently event preferences are suggested. These can be used to indicate which of two conflicting events normally succeeds; and thus, in effect, which of the two conflicting events normally cancels the effects of the other.

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  1. Applied Logic Group Department of Computer Science Queen Mary, University of London, London, E1 4NS

    John Bell

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  1. Université Paul Sabatier, IRIT-CNRS, 118 route de Narbonne, 31062, Toulouse Cedex 4, France

    Salem Benferhat  & Philippe Besnard  & 

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Bell, J. (2001). Simultaneous Events: Conflicts and Preferences. In: Benferhat, S., Besnard, P. (eds) Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty. ECSQARU 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2143. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44652-4_63

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