Incidence Calculus: A Mechanism for Probabilistic Reasoning
Abstract
Mechanisms for the automation of uncertainty are required for expert systems. Sometimes these mechanisms need to obey the properties of probabilistic reasoning. A purely numeric mechanism, like those proposed so far, cannot provide a probabilistic logic with truth functional connectives. We propose an alternative mechanism, Incidence Calculus, which is based on a representation of uncertainty using sets of points, which might represent situations, models or possible worlds. Incidence Calculus does provide a probabilistic logic with truth functional connectives.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- March 2013
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.1304.3438
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1304.3438
- Bibcode:
- 2013arXiv1304.3438B
- Keywords:
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- Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence
- E-Print:
- Appears in Proceedings of the First Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI1985)