Multi-agent context-based merging
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Intelligent agents have to be able to merge (possibly conflicting) pieces of information obtained from different sources to produce a coherent picture of the world. In this paper we propose a multi-agent model of context-sensitive merging. We show that the success of the model depends, to a large extent, on the availability of suitable merging operations on epistemic states. As a result, we investigate the link between such merging operations and the aggregation operations studied in social choice theory [Arrow, 1963]. We show that Arrow’s impossibility result disappears when recast into the framework that we employ. This has important implications for both merging and social choice theory.
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