The development of agent communication languages casts a spotlight on epistemic logic and the enrichment of epistemic languages by additional operators, e.g. deontic operators or operators representing speech acts. In this paper we focus on two limitations of classical epistemic logic. The standard possible worlds semantics allows one to model either the knowledge or the beliefs of an agent, bu...

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We propose a novel approach to evaluating the empirical importance of individual managerial characteristics: We analyze different managerial positions (CEO and CFO) jointly and ask whether a managerial bias (overconfidence) matters for decisions under the control of the manager, but not for decisions outside the manager’s core duties. Using a new data set on CEO and CFO overconfidence, we show ...

Belief revision provides support for intelligent information processing and deci sion making The objective of this paper is to illustrate how theoretical ideas in belief revision have laid the foundation for practical implementations and real world applications Belief revision operators are often based on one of the following constructive de nitions an epistemic entrenchment ordering of sentenc...

Desire is quite different from belief. While the accumulation of beliefs tend to reduce the remaining possible worlds they point at, the accumulation of desires tend to increase the set of states of affairs tentatively considered as satisfactory. Indeed beliefs are expected to be closed under conjunctions, while one can argue that endorsing φ∨ψ as a desire means to desire both φ and ψ. Still de...

In recent papers [10, 11] Krister Segerberg introduced Irrevocable Belief Revision, as closely related to AGM revision [2]. In this paper we present irrevocable belief revision in terms of an epistemic entrenchment relation.1

We combine corpus methodology with experimental methods to gain insights into the nature of antonymy as a lexico-semantic relations and the degree of entrenchment and routinization of antonymic word-pairs in memory.

This document lists relevant literature for the DSTC Spectrum project on Trust Management in Open Computer Networks. 1 The Concept of Trust