Abstract. Given several Dempster-Shafer belief functions, the framework of valuation networks describes an efficient method for computing the marginal of the combined belief functi...
: In this paper we consider the problem of inducing causal relations from statistical data. Although it is well known that a correlation does not justify the claim of a causal rela...
Intelligent agents embedded in physical environments need ity to connect, or anchor, the symbols used to perform abstract reasoning to the physical entities which these symbols ref...
In this paper we develop frameworks for logical systems which are able to re ect not only nonmonotonic patterns of reasoning, but also paraconsistent reasoning. For this we conside...
Abstract. This paper reviews and relates two default reasoning mechanisms, lexicographic (lex) and maximum entropy (me) entailment. Meentailment requires that defaults be assigned ...