Merging Rules: Preliminary Version

In this paper we consider the merging of rules or conditionals. In contrast to other approaches, we do not invent a new approach from scratch, for one particular kind of rule, but we are interested in ways to generalize existing revision and merging operators from belief merging to rule merging. First, we study ways to merge rules based on only a notion of consistency of a set of rules, and illustrate this approach using a consolidation operator of Booth and Richter. Second, we consider ways to merge rules based on a notion of implication among rules, and we illustrate this approach using socalled min and max merging operators defined using possibilistic logic.