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Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence

  • 1st Edition, Volume 4 - January 1, 1990
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: L.N. Kanal, J.F. Lemmer
  • Language: English

How to deal with uncertainty is a subject of much controversy in Artificial Intelligence. This volume brings together a wide range of perspectives on uncertainty, many of the… Read more

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How to deal with uncertainty is a subject of much controversy in Artificial Intelligence. This volume brings together a wide range of perspectives on uncertainty, many of the contributors being the principal proponents in the controversy.Some of the notable issues which emerge from these papers revolve around an interval-based calculus of uncertainty, the Dempster-Shafer Theory, and probability as the best numeric model for uncertainty. There remain strong dissenting opinions not only about probability but even about the utility of any numeric method in this context.

Table of contents

Overviews and Reviews (C. Berenstein, R.K. Bhatnagar, L.N. Kanal and D. Lavine). Explication or Critique of Current Approaches to Uncertainty (P.P. Bonissone, B. Chandrasekaran, P. Cheeseman, K.S. Decker, B.N. Grosof, D. Heckerman, M. Henrion, E. Horvitz, D. Hunter, R.W. Johnson, J.F. Lemmer, G. Shafer, J.E. Shore, D.J. Spiegelhalter, M.C. Tanner, B.P. Wise, L.A. Zadeh and A.C. Zimmer). Synthesis of Current Approaches to Uncertainty (C.Y. Chong, M.S. Cohen, R.M. Fung, G.S.-H. Liu and R.R. Yager). Incorporating Uncertainty in Systems (J. Breese, M.L. Ginsberg, P.D. Holden, S. Holtzman, K.G. Kempf, T.S. Levitt, J. Pearl, B.M. Perrin, R.D. Shachter, D.S. Vaughan and R.M. Yadrick). Techniques for Inducing and Processing Uncertain Information (M. Bauer, N.C. Dalkey, H. Hamburger, S.J. Hanson and L. Rendell). Alternate Perspectives (J. Fox, R.P. Loui and R. Solomonoff). Alternatives to Minimax in Game Playing (B. Abramson, D. Nau, P. Purdom and C.-H. Tzeng).

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Volume: 4
  • Published: March 31, 2015
  • Language: English

About the editors

LK

L.N. Kanal

Affiliations and expertise
University of Maryland, Department of Computer Science, College Park, MD, USA

JL

J.F. Lemmer

Affiliations and expertise
CTA, Inc., Rome, NY USA

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