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IJCSA
2006
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13 years 5 months ago
Possibilistic Explanation
The philosophy literature has been struggling with the problem of defining causality. There has been extensive discussion about it. Hume taught that talk of causation was metaphys...
Sara Boutouhami, Aïcha Mokhtari
INFOCOM
2008
IEEE
14 years 5 days ago
An Explanation for Unexpected 802.11 Outdoor Link-level Measurement Results
—This paper provides experimental evidence that “weird”/poor outdoor link-level performance measurements may be caused by driver/card-specific antenna diversity algorithms u...
Domenico Giustiniano, Giuseppe Bianchi, Luca Scali...
IJCAI
1989
13 years 7 months ago
Prediction is Deduction but Explanation is Abduction
This paper presents an approach to temporal reasoning in which prediction is deduction but explanation is abduction. It is argued that all causal laws should be expressed in the n...
Murray Shanahan
ECAI
2008
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Hierarchical explanation of inference in Bayesian networks that represent a population of independent agents
This paper describes a novel method for explaining Bayesian network (BN) inference when the network is modeling a population of conditionally independent agents, each of which is m...
Peter Sutovskú, Gregory F. Cooper
HICSS
2005
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
Causal Reasoning Engine: An Explanation-Based Approach to Syndromic Surveillance
1 Quickly detecting an unexpected pathogen can save many lives. In cases of bioterrorism or naturally occurring epidemics, accurate diagnoses may not be made until much of the popu...
Benjamin B. Perry, Tim Van Allen