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Intro; Preface; Contents; 1 Motivation; 1.1 An Example of the Belief Change Problem; 1.2 Some Questions About the Belief Change Problem; 2 History; 2.1 The Beginnings; 2.2 The Impact in Philosophy; 2.3 The Impact in Artificial Intelligence; 3 The AGM Model; 3.1 The Language; 3.2 Logical Consequence; 3.3 Belief Sets and Possible Worlds; 3.4 Basic Ideas of AGM Theory; 3.5 A Syntactic Approach to Contraction; 3.6 A Syntactic Approach to Revision; 3.7 Relations Between Contraction and Revision; 3.8 Partial Meet Operations; 4 Equivalent Characterizations; 4.1 Possible World Models
4.2 Epistemic Entrenchment4.3 Specified Meet Contraction; 4.4 Kernel Contraction; 4.5 Safe Contraction; 5 Criticism of the Model; 5.1 The Recovery Postulate and Minimal Change; 5.2 The Success Postulates; 5.3 Remainder Sets: Information vs. Informational Value; 5.4 The Expansion Property; 5.5 Are Belief Sets Too Large?; 5.6 Lack of Information in the Belief Set; 6 Belief Bases; 6.1 Representing Belief States with Belief Bases; 6.2 Change Operations on Belief Bases; 6.3 Belief Base Revision from Belief Base Contraction; 6.4 Other Belief Base Approaches
6.5 Base-Generated Operations on Belief Sets7 Iterated Change; 7.1 Revising Epistemic States; 7.2 Major Classes of Iterable Operations; 7.3 Making AGM Contraction Iterable; 8 Non-Prioritized Change; 8.1 Classification of Revision Operations; 8.2 Some Constructions of Non-Prioritized Revision; 8.3 Non-Prioritized Contraction; 9 Multiple Change; 9.1 Choice and Package Contraction; 9.2 Multiple Partial Meet Contraction; 9.3 Multiple Kernel Contraction; 9.4 Sphere-Based Multiple Contraction; 10 Alternative Operations of Change; 10.1 Update; 10.2 Changes in the Strengths of Beliefs
10.3 Resource-Bounded and Local Change10.4 Paraconsistent Belief Change; 10.5 Some Other Operations of Change; 11 Extended Representations of Belief States; 11.1 Probability and Plausibility; 11.2 Ranking Models; 11.3 Conditionals and the Ramsey Test; 11.4 Modal, Doxastic, and Temporal Sentences; 11.5 Changes in Norms, Preferences, Goals, and Desires; 12 Applications, Connections, and Implementations; 12.1 Non-Monotonic and Defeasible Logic; 12.2 Modal and Dynamic Logics; 12.3 Horn Clause Contraction; 12.4 Description Logic; 12.5 Belief Change by Translation Between Logics
12.6 Truth and Learning12.7 Connections with Social Choice; 12.8 Implementations; 13 Multiagent Belief Change; 13.1 Merging; 13.2 Argumentation; 13.3 Game Theory; 14 Descriptor Revision; 14.1 Belief Descriptors; 14.2 Descriptor Revision; 14.3 Connections with AGM; 14.4 Further Developments; References
4.2 Epistemic Entrenchment4.3 Specified Meet Contraction; 4.4 Kernel Contraction; 4.5 Safe Contraction; 5 Criticism of the Model; 5.1 The Recovery Postulate and Minimal Change; 5.2 The Success Postulates; 5.3 Remainder Sets: Information vs. Informational Value; 5.4 The Expansion Property; 5.5 Are Belief Sets Too Large?; 5.6 Lack of Information in the Belief Set; 6 Belief Bases; 6.1 Representing Belief States with Belief Bases; 6.2 Change Operations on Belief Bases; 6.3 Belief Base Revision from Belief Base Contraction; 6.4 Other Belief Base Approaches
6.5 Base-Generated Operations on Belief Sets7 Iterated Change; 7.1 Revising Epistemic States; 7.2 Major Classes of Iterable Operations; 7.3 Making AGM Contraction Iterable; 8 Non-Prioritized Change; 8.1 Classification of Revision Operations; 8.2 Some Constructions of Non-Prioritized Revision; 8.3 Non-Prioritized Contraction; 9 Multiple Change; 9.1 Choice and Package Contraction; 9.2 Multiple Partial Meet Contraction; 9.3 Multiple Kernel Contraction; 9.4 Sphere-Based Multiple Contraction; 10 Alternative Operations of Change; 10.1 Update; 10.2 Changes in the Strengths of Beliefs
10.3 Resource-Bounded and Local Change10.4 Paraconsistent Belief Change; 10.5 Some Other Operations of Change; 11 Extended Representations of Belief States; 11.1 Probability and Plausibility; 11.2 Ranking Models; 11.3 Conditionals and the Ramsey Test; 11.4 Modal, Doxastic, and Temporal Sentences; 11.5 Changes in Norms, Preferences, Goals, and Desires; 12 Applications, Connections, and Implementations; 12.1 Non-Monotonic and Defeasible Logic; 12.2 Modal and Dynamic Logics; 12.3 Horn Clause Contraction; 12.4 Description Logic; 12.5 Belief Change by Translation Between Logics
12.6 Truth and Learning12.7 Connections with Social Choice; 12.8 Implementations; 13 Multiagent Belief Change; 13.1 Merging; 13.2 Argumentation; 13.3 Game Theory; 14 Descriptor Revision; 14.1 Belief Descriptors; 14.2 Descriptor Revision; 14.3 Connections with AGM; 14.4 Further Developments; References