---
title: "Nonmonotonic Reasoning and Multiple Belief Revision"
authors:
  - "Dongmo Zhang"
  - "Shifu Chen"
  - "Wujia Zhu"
  - "Hongbing Li"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1997/15"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1997/0015.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1997
pages: "95-100"
track: "Automated Reasoning"
keywords:
---

# Nonmonotonic Reasoning and Multiple Belief Revision

Dongmo Zhang, Shifu Chen, Wujia Zhu, Hongbing Li

*Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 95-100.

## Abstract

Th e aim of the present pap er is to reveal the interrelation between general patt erns of nonmonotonic reasoning and multiple belief revision. For this purpose we define a nonmonotonic inference fr ame in which individual infe rence ru les have been proposed in the lit era tur e but their combinat ion as a system has not been invest igat ed. It is shown that such a system is so strong that almost a ll th e rul es (including the supracompactness) suggested for nonmonotonic inference relations in the lit erature hold in it. We prove that this nonmonotonic inference frame is strictly co rr espe nd e nt with multiple be li ef revision operation. On the basis of this result we analyse a specific paradigm of defult theory which satisfies all the rul es und er consideration and discuss limitations of met hods based on consequence relations for the study of nonmonotonic reasoning.