A Game-Theoretic Perspective on Inconsistency Handling

Authors: Yakoub Salhi

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Research Type Theoretical This paper introduces a game-theoretic framework for restoring consistency in propositional bases. The process is modeled as an interactive dialogue between two agents: a Proponent, who seeks to isolate a unique, consistent subset by posing strategic questions, and an Opponent, who aims to obstruct that goal through adversarial responses. We show that this framework provides a foundation for quantifying the effort involved in restoring consistency, revealing a connection between this effort and entropy in information theory. Finally, we demonstrate how the quantified restoration effort can serve as a basis for measuring inconsistency.
Researcher Affiliation Academia Yakoub Salhi Univ. Artois, CNRS, CRIL, F-62300 Lens, France EMAIL
Pseudocode Yes Algorithm 1 Greedy Algorithm for Approximating Iw mc Require: A PB K and the set of its MCSes S = MCS(K) 1: function BUILDTREE(S) 2: if |S| = 1 then 3: return a leaf node identifying the single MCS in S 4: end if 5: Let φ = arg minφ S S\T S G(φ, S) 6: Recursively build left and right subtrees: Tl BUILDTREE(S φ) Tr BUILDTREE(Sφ) 7: return the tree (φ, Tl, Tr) 8: end function 9: BUILDTREE(S)
Open Source Code No The paper does not provide any statement about releasing source code, nor does it include links to a code repository.
Open Datasets No The paper introduces a game-theoretic framework and an inconsistency measure, but it does not conduct empirical experiments using specific datasets. Therefore, there is no mention of open datasets.
Dataset Splits No The paper focuses on theoretical development and does not describe any experiments that would involve dataset splits.
Hardware Specification No The paper is theoretical and does not describe any experimental setup or specific hardware used for computations.
Software Dependencies No The paper describes a theoretical framework and an algorithm but does not specify any software dependencies or their versions.
Experiment Setup No The paper is theoretical and does not include an experimental section with specific setup details like hyperparameters or training configurations.