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TPHOL
2008
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Formal Reasoning About Causality Analysis
Systems that can immediately react to their inputs may suffer from cyclic dependencies between their actions and the corresponding trigger conditions. For this reason, causality an...
Jens Brandt, Klaus Schneider
IJCSA
2006
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13 years 7 months ago
Possibilistic Explanation
The philosophy literature has been struggling with the problem of defining causality. There has been extensive discussion about it. Hume taught that talk of causation was metaphys...
Sara Boutouhami, Aïcha Mokhtari
JMLR
2010
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13 years 2 months ago
When causality matters for prediction
Recent evaluations have indicated that in practice, general methods for prediction which do not account for changes in the conditional distribution of a target variable given feat...
Robert E. Tillman, Peter Spirtes
SIGMOD
2011
ACM
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12 years 10 months ago
Tracing data errors with view-conditioned causality
A surprising query result is often an indication of errors in the query or the underlying data. Recent work suggests using causal reasoning to find explanations for the surprisin...
Alexandra Meliou, Wolfgang Gatterbauer, Suman Nath...
AAAI
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Dormant Independence
The construction of causal graphs from non-experimental data rests on a set of constraints that the graph structure imposes on all probability distributions compatible with the gr...
Ilya Shpitser, Judea Pearl