Solvers on finite domains use local consistency notions to remove values from the domains. This paper defines value withdrawal explanations. Domain reduction is formalized with ch...
Bayes nets are seeing increasing use in expert systems [2, 6], and structural equations models continue to be popular in many branches of the social sciences [1]. Both types of mod...
Feature-Oriented Software Development provides a multitude of formalisms, methods, languages, and tools for building variable, customizable, and extensible software. Along differe...
In clique tree clustering, inference consists of propagation in a clique tree compiled from a Bayesian network. In this paper, we develop an analytical approach to characterizing ...
A context-free grammar is a single-tree grammar (STG) if every nonterminal symbol has at most one production rule whose right hand side contains nonterminal symbols. Various prope...