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Four-valued diagnoses for stratified knowledge-bases

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We present a four-valued approach for recovering consistent data from inconsistent set of assertions. For a common family of knowledge-bases we also provide an efficient algorithm for doing so automaticly. This method is particularly useful for making model-based diagnoses.

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Dirk van Dalen Marc Bezem

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Arieli, O., Avron, A. (1997). Four-valued diagnoses for stratified knowledge-bases. In: van Dalen, D., Bezem, M. (eds) Computer Science Logic. CSL 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1258. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-63172-0_29

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