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UAI
1994
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Belief Induced by the Partial Knowledge of the Probabilities
: We construct the belief function that quantifies the agent' beliefs about which event of will occurred when he knows that the event is selected by a chance set-up and that ...
Philippe Smets
UAI
1994
13 years 5 months ago
Global Conditioning for Probabilistic Inference in Belief Networks
In this paper we propose a new approach to probabilistic inference on belief networks, global conditioning, which is a simple generalization of Pearl's (1986b) method of loop...
Ross D. Shachter, Stig K. Andersen, Peter Szolovit...
UAI
1994
13 years 5 months ago
Three Approaches to Probability Model Selection
William B. Poland, Ross D. Shachter
UAI
1994
13 years 5 months ago
A Probabilistic Calculus of Actions
Wepresenta symbolicmachinerythatadmits bothprobabilisticand causalinformation abouta givendomainand producesprobabilisticstatementsabouttheeffectofactions andtheimpactof observati...
Judea Pearl
UAI
1994
13 years 5 months ago
A Logic for Default Reasoning About Probabilities
A logic is de ned that allows to express information about statistical probabilities and about degrees of belief in speci c propositions. By interpreting the twotypes of probabili...
Manfred Jaeger
UAI
1994
13 years 5 months ago
A Decision-based View of Causality
Most traditional models of uncertainty have focused on the associational relationship among variables as captured by conditional dependence. In order to successfully manage intell...
David Heckerman, Ross D. Shachter
UAI
1994
13 years 5 months ago
A New Look at Causal Independence
Heckerman (1993) defined causal independence in terms of a set of temporal conditional independence statements. These statements formalized certain types of causal interaction whe...
David Heckerman, John S. Breese
UAI
1994
13 years 5 months ago
Approximation Algorithms for the Loop Cutset Problem
We show how to nd a minimum weight loop cutset in a Bayesian network with high probability. Finding such a loop cutset is the rst step in the method of conditioning for inference....
Ann Becker, Dan Geiger
UAI
1994
13 years 5 months ago
Generating New Beliefs from Old
In previous work [BGHK92, BGHK93], we have studied the random-worlds approach--a particular (and quite powerful) method for generating degrees of belief (i.e., subjective probabil...
Fahiem Bacchus, Adam J. Grove, Joseph Y. Halpern, ...