Handbook of Defeasible Reasoning and Uncertainty Management Systems
Title | Handbook of Defeasible Reasoning and Uncertainty Management Systems PDF eBook |
Author | Dov M. Gabbay |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 518 |
Release | 2013-04-17 |
Genre | Mathematics |
ISBN | 9401717370 |
Reasoning under uncertainty is always based on a specified language or for malism, including its particular syntax and semantics, but also on its associated inference mechanism. In the present volume of the handbook the last aspect, the algorithmic aspects of uncertainty calculi are presented. Theory has suffi ciently advanced to unfold some generally applicable fundamental structures and methods. On the other hand, particular features of specific formalisms and ap proaches to uncertainty of course still influence strongly the computational meth ods to be used. Both general as well as specific methods are included in this volume. Broadly speaking, symbolic or logical approaches to uncertainty and nu merical approaches are often distinguished. Although this distinction is somewhat misleading, it is used as a means to structure the present volume. This is even to some degree reflected in the two first chapters, which treat fundamental, general methods of computation in systems designed to represent uncertainty. It has been noted early by Shenoy and Shafer, that computations in different domains have an underlying common structure. Essentially pieces of knowledge or information are to be combined together and then focused on some particular question or domain. This can be captured in an algebraic structure called valuation algebra which is described in the first chapter. Here the basic operations of combination and focus ing (marginalization) of knowledge and information is modeled abstractly subject to simple axioms.
Handbook of Defeasible Reasoning and Uncertainty Management Systems: Algorithms for uncertainty and defeasible reasoning, edited by: Jürg Kohlas and Serafín Moral
Title | Handbook of Defeasible Reasoning and Uncertainty Management Systems: Algorithms for uncertainty and defeasible reasoning, edited by: Jürg Kohlas and Serafín Moral PDF eBook |
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Pages | 0 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Belief and doubt |
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Handbook of Defeasible Reasoning and Uncertainty Management Systems
Title | Handbook of Defeasible Reasoning and Uncertainty Management Systems PDF eBook |
Author | Dov M. Gabbay |
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Pages | 528 |
Release | 2014-01-15 |
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ISBN | 9789401717380 |
Handbook of Defeasible Reasoning and Uncertainty Management Systems: Abductive reasoning and uncertainty management systems, edited by: Dov M. Gabbay and Rudolf Kruse
Title | Handbook of Defeasible Reasoning and Uncertainty Management Systems: Abductive reasoning and uncertainty management systems, edited by: Dov M. Gabbay and Rudolf Kruse PDF eBook |
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Pages | 0 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Belief and doubt |
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Handbook of Defeasible Reasoning and Uncertainty Management Systems: Agent-based defeasible control in dynamic environments, edited by: J.-J, Ch. Meyer and J. Treur
Title | Handbook of Defeasible Reasoning and Uncertainty Management Systems: Agent-based defeasible control in dynamic environments, edited by: J.-J, Ch. Meyer and J. Treur PDF eBook |
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Pages | 0 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Belief and doubt |
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Quantified Representation of Uncertainty and Imprecision
Title | Quantified Representation of Uncertainty and Imprecision PDF eBook |
Author | Dov M. Gabbay |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 476 |
Release | 2013-11-11 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9401717354 |
We are happy to present the first volume of the Handbook of Defeasible Reasoning and Uncertainty Management Systems. Uncertainty pervades the real world and must therefore be addressed by every system that attempts to represent reality. The representation of uncertainty is a ma jor concern of philosophers, logicians, artificial intelligence researchers and com puter sciencists, psychologists, statisticians, economists and engineers. The present Handbook volumes provide frontline coverage of this area. This Handbook was produced in the style of previous handbook series like the Handbook of Philosoph ical Logic, the Handbook of Logic in Computer Science, the Handbook of Logic in Artificial Intelligence and Logic Programming, and can be seen as a companion to them in covering the wide applications of logic and reasoning. We hope it will answer the needs for adequate representations of uncertainty. This Handbook series grew out of the ESPRIT Basic Research Project DRUMS II, where the acronym is made out of the Handbook series title. This project was financially supported by the European Union and regroups 20 major European research teams working in the general domain of uncertainty. As a fringe benefit of the DRUMS project, the research community was able to create this Hand book series, relying on the DRUMS participants as the core of the authors for the Handbook together with external international experts.
Mathematical Reviews
Title | Mathematical Reviews PDF eBook |
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Pages | 1280 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Mathematics |
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