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....
In this paper some initialwork towards a new approach to qualitative reasoning under uncertainty is presented. This method is not only applicable to qualitative probabilistic reas...
Heckerman (1993) defined causal independence in terms of a set of temporal conditional independence statements. These statements formalized certain types of causal interaction whe...
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...