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IJCAI
1993
13 years 6 months ago
Statistical Foundations for Default Reasoning
We describe a new approach to default reasoning, based on a principle of indi erence among possible worlds. We interpret default rules as extreme statistical statements, thus obta...
Fahiem Bacchus, Adam J. Grove, Joseph Y. Halpern, ...
AI
2002
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Explanations, belief revision and defeasible reasoning
We present different constructions for non-prioritized belief revision, that is, belief changes in which the input sentences are not always accepted. First, we present the concept...
Marcelo A. Falappa, Gabriele Kern-Isberner, Guille...
ECSQARU
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Interpreting Belief Functions as Dirichlet Distributions
Traditional Dempster Shafer belief theory does not provide a simple method for judging the effect of statistical and probabilistic data on belief functions and vice versa. This put...
Audun Jøsang, Zied Elouedi
SAT
2009
Springer
121views Hardware» more  SAT 2009»
13 years 12 months ago
The Complexity of Reasoning for Fragments of Default Logic
Default logic was introduced by Reiter in 1980. In 1992, Gottlob classified the complexity of the extension existence problem for propositional default logic as Σp 2-complete, an...
Olaf Beyersdorff, Arne Meier, Michael Thomas, Heri...
PODS
2006
ACM
156views Database» more  PODS 2006»
14 years 5 months ago
From statistical knowledge bases to degrees of belief: an overview
An intelligent agent will often be uncertain about various properties of its environment, and when acting in that environment it will frequently need to quantify its uncertainty. ...
Joseph Y. Halpern