The Relevance of Irrelevance
Proceedings of the Tenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Knowledge Representation. Pages 416-421.
Abstract
This research describes the formalization of statements of the form fact f is irrelevant to fact g given theory M. We motivate the need for representing and reasoning with such statements in problem-solving systems, and outline the semantics and properties of statements about irrelevance. We then describe a logic irrelevance that serves as a language for specifying irrelevance claims in the world, and present an associated calculus that allows us to draw new irrelevance conclusions from given ones. The utility of the formalization and the types of inferences it sanctions are demonstrated with examples from data interpretation, representation reformulation and experiment design .
@inproceedings{ijcai1987p83,
title = {The Relevance of Irrelevance},
author = {Subramanian, Devika and Genesereth, Michael R.},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Tenth International Joint Conference on
Artificial Intelligence, {IJCAI-87}},
publisher = {International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence},
editor = {John McDermott},
pages = {416--421},
year = {1987},
note = {Knowledge Representation},
url = {https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1987/83},
}
TY - CPAPER TI - The Relevance of Irrelevance AU - Subramanian, Devika AU - Genesereth, Michael R. T2 - Proceedings of the Tenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-87 PB - International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence PY - 1987 SP - 416 EP - 421 UR - https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1987/83 ER -Copied
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