This proposal presents an approach to explanation that incorporates the paradigms of belief revision and abduction. We present an algorithm that combines these techniques and a system called BRACE that is a preliminary implementation of this algorithm. We show the applicability of the BRACE approach to a wide range of domains including scientific discovery, device diagnosis and plan recognition. Finally, we describe our proposals for a new implementation, new application domains for our system and extensions to this approach.

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Technical Report AI92-179, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, University of Texas.

@TechReport{subramanian:tr92, title={Belief Revision in the Context of Abductive Explanation}, author={Siddarth Subramanian}, number={AI92-179}, month={December}, address={Austin, TX}, institution={Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, University of Texas}, url="http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/ai-lab?subramanian:tr92", year={1992} }