Incremental Tradeoff Resolution in Qualitative Probabilistic Networks

Qualitativeprobabilistic reasoningin a Bayesiannetworkoften reveals tradeoffs: relationships that are ambiguousdue to competingqualitative influences. Wepresent twotechniquesthat combinequalitative and numericprobabilistic reasoningto resolve such tradeoffs, inferring the qualitative relationship betweennodesin a Bayesiannetwork.Thefirst approach incrementallymarginalizesnodesin network,andthe secondincrementallyrefines the state spacesof randomvariables. Bothprovidesystematicmethodsfor tradeoffresolutionat potentiallylowercomputational cost than applicationof purely numericmethods.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1998
• Where: UAI
• Authors: Chao-Lin Liu, Michael P. Wellman
• Keywords: Bayesiannetwork.Thefirst Approach Incrementallymarginalizesnodesin, Bayesiannetworkoften Reveals Tradeoffs, Tradeoffresolutionat Potentiallylowercomputational Cost, UAI 1998, UAI 2008