Inconsistency-based ranking of knowledge bases

Said Jabbour, Badran Raddaoui, Lakhdar Sais

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Abstract

Inconsistencies are a usually undesirable feature of many kinds of data and knowledge. Measuring inconsistency is potentially useful to determine which parts of the data or of the knowledge base are conflicting. Several measures have been proposed to quantify such inconsistencies. However, one of the main problems lies in the difficulty to compare their underlying quality. Indeed, a highly inconsistent knowledge base with respect to a given inconsistency measure can be considered less inconsistent using another one. In this paper, we propose a new framework allowing us to partition a set of knowledge bases as a sequence of subsets according to a set of inconsistency measures, where the first element of the partition corresponds to the most inconsistent one. Then we discuss how finer ranking between knowledge bases can be derived from an original combination of existing measures. Finally, we extend our framework to provide some inconsistency measures obtained by combining existing ones.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationICAART 2015 - 7th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, Proceedings
EditorsStephane Loiseau, Joaquim Filipe, Joaquim Filipe, Beatrice Duval, Jaap van den Herik
PublisherSciTePress
Pages414-419
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9789897580741
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2015
Externally publishedYes
Event7th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, ICAART 2015 - Lisbon, Portugal
Duration: 10 Jan 201512 Jan 2015

Publication series

NameICAART 2015 - 7th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, Proceedings
Volume2

Conference

Conference7th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, ICAART 2015
Country/TerritoryPortugal
CityLisbon
Period10/01/1512/01/15

Keywords

  • Knowledge representation
  • Measuring inconsistency
  • Pareto optimality

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