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IPMU
1994
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Philosophical Foundations for Causal Networks
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...
Glenn Shafer
ECAI
2010
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
A contextual reading of conditional commitments
Abstract. This paper puts forward a view on conditional commitments as causal rules, using action language K as the specification framework. The proposal builds upon an operational...
Juan Manuel Serrano, Sergio Saugar, Rosario Lauren...
PRICAI
2004
Springer
14 years 25 days ago
On the Intended Interpretations of Actions
Abstract. In this paper we address the problem of commonsense reasoning about action by appealing to Occam’s razor—we should accept the simplest hypothesis explaining the obser...
Victor Jauregui, Maurice Pagnucco, Norman Y. Foo
ESANN
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Exploring the causal order of binary variables via exponential hierarchies of Markov kernels
Abstract. We propose a new algorithm for estimating the causal structure that underlies the observed dependence among n (n ≥ 4) binary variables X1, . . . , Xn. Our inference pri...
Xiaohai Sun, Dominik Janzing
AAAI
2006
13 years 9 months ago
Identification of Joint Interventional Distributions in Recursive Semi-Markovian Causal Models
This paper is concerned with estimating the effects of actions from causal assumptions, represented concisely as a directed graph, and statistical knowledge, given as a probabilit...
Ilya Shpitser, Judea Pearl