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2009 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
On Temporal Properties of Knowledge Base Inconsistency
Author : Du Zhang
Published in: Transactions on Computational Science V
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Inconsistent knowledge and information in the real world often have to do with not only what conflicting circumstances are but also when they happen. As a result, only scrutinizing the logical forms that cause inconsistency may not be adequate. In this paper we describe our research work on the temporal characteristics of inconsistent knowledge that can exist in an intelligent system. We provide a formal definition for temporal inconsistency that is based on a logical-conflicting and temporal-coinciding dichotomy. The interval temporal logic underpins our treatment of temporally inconsistent propositions in a knowledge base. We also propose a systematic approach to identifying conflicting intervals for temporally inconsistent propositions. The results help delineate the semantic difference between the classical and temporal inconsistency.