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UAI
2003
13 years 9 months ago
A Logic for Reasoning about Evidence
We introduce a logic for reasoning about evidence that essentially views evidence as a function from prior beliefs (before making an observation) to posterior beliefs (after makin...
Joseph Y. Halpern, Riccardo Pucella
FLAIRS
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Mining Default Rules from Statistical Data
In this paper, we are interested in the qualitative knowledge that underlies some given probabilistic information. To represent such qualitative structures, we use ordinal conditi...
Gabriele Kern-Isberner, Matthias Thimm, Marc Finth...
AAAI
1994
13 years 8 months ago
Forming Beliefs about a Changing World
The situation calculus is a popular technique for reasoning about action and change. However, its restriction to a firstorder syntax and pure deductive reasoning makes it unsuitab...
Fahiem Bacchus, Adam J. Grove, Joseph Y. Halpern, ...
ECSQARU
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Contextual Discounting of Belief Functions
The Transferable Belief Model is a general framework for managing imprecise and uncertain information using belief functions. In this framework, the discounting operation allows to...
David Mercier, Benjamin Quost, Thierry Denoeux
ECSQARU
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Belief Functions and Cluster Ensembles
Abstract. In this paper, belief functions, defined on the lattice of partitions of a set of objects, are investigated as a suitable framework for combining multiple clusterings. W...
Marie-Hélène Masson, Thierry Denoeux