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CORR
2008
Springer
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Defaults and Normality in Causal Structures
A serious defect with the Halpern-Pearl (HP) definition of causality is repaired by combining a theory of causality with a theory of defaults. In addition, it is shown that (despi...
Joseph Y. Halpern
ECAI
2006
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Background Default Knowledge and Causality Ascriptions
A model is defined that predicts an agent's ascriptions of causality (and related notions of facilitation and justification) between two events in a chain, based on background...
Jean-François Bonnefon, Rui Da Silva Neves,...
LAI
1996
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13 years 6 months ago
Doxastic Normality Logic: A Qualitative Probabilistic Modal Framework for Defaults and Belief
We propose a new semantics for modeling belief, mixing conncepts from qualitative probabilistic and classical possible world accounts. Our belief structures are coherent sets of q...
Emil Weydert
ECAI
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Plausibility Structures for Default Reasoning
Friedman and Halpern have introduced the inference by plausibility structures, which provides semantics for various default logics. This is a generalization of known inferences, su...
Yves Moinard
IJAR
2008
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Estimation of causal effects using linear non-Gaussian causal models with hidden variables
The task of estimating causal effects from non-experimental data is notoriously difficult and unreliable. Nevertheless, precisely such estimates are commonly required in many fiel...
Patrik O. Hoyer, Shohei Shimizu, Antti J. Kerminen...