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title: "Minimal and Absent Information in Contexts"
authors:
  - "Floris Roelofsen"
  - "Luciano Serafini"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2005/124"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2005/0124.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 2005
pages: "558-562"
track: ""
keywords:
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# Minimal and Absent Information in Contexts

Floris Roelofsen, Luciano Serafini

*Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 558-562.

## Abstract

Multi-context systems (MCS) represent contextual information flow. We show that the semantics of an MCS is completely determined by the information that is obtained when simulating the MCS, in such a way that a minimal amount of information is deduced at each step of the simulation. In MCS, the acquisition of new information is based on the presence of other information only. We give a generalized account to model situations in which information can be obtained as a result of the absence of other information as well.