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Inconsistency measures help analyzing contradictory knowledge bases and resolving inconsistencies. In recent years several measures with desirable properties have been proposed, but often these measures correspond to combinatorial or non-convex optimization problems that are hard to solve in practice. In this paper, I study a new family of inconsistency measures for probabilistic knowledge bases. All members satisfy many desirable properties and can be computed by means of convex optimization techniques. For two members, I present linear programs whose computation is barely harder than a probabilistic satisfiability test.

inconsistency measures; probabilistic logic; inconsistency in probabilistic knowledge bases