Forgetting-Based Inconsistency Measure

International audienceWe propose to apply a variant of forgetting, a simple method to restore consistency, in order to get a new inconsistency measure from the following intuitive idea: How much effort is needed to restore consistency of a knowledge base is presumably indicative of how inconsistent the knowledge base is. We discuss properties of the inconsistency measure obtained, in particular in the face of well-known postulates for inconsistency measures. We also mention in what sense this new measure does not fall into the dichotomy of inconsistency measures proposed in the literature: alphabet-based approaches vs formula-based approaches