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by proposing a new stability criterion that are based on private beliefs
insteadofcommonknowledge.
In this topic, we shall develop stability concept where possible un-
certainty in agents' beliefs are accounted for. We shall study real life
multi-agent application of the propose concepts, and we will study the
relationships and various properties of the new criteria, which we shall
call the belief-based cores.

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