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Towards a Paraconsistent Approach to Actions in Distributed Information-Rich Environments

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Intelligent Distributed Computing XI (IDC 2017)

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The paper introduces ActLog, a rule-based language capable of specifying actions paraconsistently. ActLog is an extension of 4QL\(^{\!\text{ Bel }}\), a rule-based language for reasoning with paraconsistent and paracomplete belief bases and belief structures. Actions considered in the paper act on belief bases rather than states represented as sets of ground literals. Each belief base stores multiple world representations which can be though of as a representation of possible states. In this context ActLog’s action may be then seen as a method of transforming one belief base into another. In contrast to other approaches, ActLog permits to execute actions even if the underlying belief base state is partial or inconsistent. Finally, the framework introduced in this paper is tractable.

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    Acyclicity of references among modules is required (needed for tractability of computing queries).

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This research has been supported by the Polish National Science Centre grant 2015/19/B/ST6/02589.

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  1. Institute of Informatics, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

    Łukasz Białek, Barbara Dunin-Kęplicz & Andrzej Szałas

  2. Department of Computer and Information Science, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

    Andrzej Szałas

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Białek, Ł., Dunin-Kęplicz, B., Szałas, A. (2018). Towards a Paraconsistent Approach to Actions in Distributed Information-Rich Environments. In: Ivanović, M., Bădică, C., Dix, J., Jovanović, Z., Malgeri, M., Savić, M. (eds) Intelligent Distributed Computing XI. IDC 2017. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 737. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66379-1_5

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