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ECSQARU
2001
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Space-Progressive Value Iteration: An Anytime Algorithm for a Class of POMDPs
Abstract. Finding optimal policies for general partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs) is computationally difficult primarily due to the need to perform dynamic-pr...
Nevin Lianwen Zhang, Weihong Zhang
ECSQARU
2001
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Polymorphism of Human Judgment under Uncertainty
The aim of this paper is to test if conjunctive and disjunctive judgments are differently accounted for possibility and probability theories depending on whether (1) judgments are ...
Rui Da Silva Neves, Eric Raufaste
ECSQARU
2001
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
General Preferential Entailments as Circumscriptions
Abstract A (general) preferential entailment is defined by a “preference relation” among “states”. States can be either interpretations or sets of interpretations, or “c...
Yves Moinard
ECSQARU
2001
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Social Choice, Merging, and Elections
Abstract. Intelligent agents have to be able to merge inputs received from different sources in a coherent and rational way. Recently, several proposals have been made for the merg...
Thomas Andreas Meyer, Aditya Ghose, Samir Chopra
ECSQARU
2001
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
On Anytime Coherence-Based Reasoning
Abstract. A great deal of research has been devoted to nontrivial reasoning in inconsistent knowledge bases. Coherence-based approaches proceed by a consolidation operation which s...
Frédéric Koriche
ECSQARU
2001
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Ramification in the Normative Method of Causality
Mahat Khelfallah, Aïcha Mokhtari
ECSQARU
2001
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
New Semantics for Quantitative Possibility Theory
New semantics for numerical values given to possibility measures are provided. For epistemic possibilities, the new approach is based on the semantics of the transferable belief m...
Didier Dubois, Henri Prade, Philippe Smets
ECSQARU
2001
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
An Empirical Investigation of the K2 Metric
Abstract. The K2 metric is a well-known evaluation measure (or scoring function) for learning Bayesian networks from data [7]. It is derived by assuming uniform prior distributions...
Christian Borgelt, Rudolf Kruse
ECSQARU
2001
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Explanatory Relations Based on Mathematical Morphology
Abstract. Using mathematical morphology on formulas introduced recently by Bloch and Lang (Proceedings of IPMU’2000) we define two new explanatory relations. Their logical behav...
Isabelle Bloch, Ramón Pino Pérez, Ca...
ECSQARU
2001
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Supporting Changes in Structure in Causal Model Construction
The term “changes in structure,” originating from work in econometrics, refers to structural modifications invoked by actions on a causal model. In this paper we formalize the...
Tsai-Ching Lu, Marek J. Druzdzel