Abstract
Belief fusion, instead of AGM belief revision, was first proposed to solve the problem of inconsistency, that arise from repetitive application of the operation when agents' knowledge were amalgamated. However in the theory, all the sources must be totally ordered and thus applicable area is quite restrictive. In this paper, we realize the belief fusion of multiple agents for partially ordered sources. When we consider such a partial ranking over sources, there is no need to restrict that each agent has total preorders over possible worlds. The preferential model allows each agent to have strict partial orders over possible worlds. Especially, such an order is called a preferential relation, that prescribes a world is more plausible than the other. We introduce an operation which combines multiple preferential relations of agents. In addition, we show that our operation can properly include the ordinary belief fusion.
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