Truth Maintenance with Cognitive Dissonance

This web site describes the theoretical application of Cognitive Dissonance Theory to a truth maintenance system. This paper was written by Peter Schwartz at the University of Maryland as an independent research project for the computer science course CMSC390 under the direction of Dr. Don Perlis.

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• Abstract
• Introduction
• Doyle's Truth Maintenance System
  • The TMS Structure
  • The TMS Process
• Cognitive Dissonance Theory
  • Festinger's Theory
  • Applying Cognitive Dissonance Theory
• Truth Maintenance with Cognitive Dissonance
  • The TMS-CD Structure
  • The TMS-CD Decision Process
  • The TMS-CD Algorithm
• Discussion
• Acknowledgements
• References