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- From: lpb@cs.bham.ac.uk (Luc Beaudoin)
- Newsgroups: comp.ai
- Subject: Re: UNCERTAINTY IN Exp. Sys
- Message-ID: <By38A8.86D@cs.bham.ac.uk>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 22:39:44 GMT
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- EASWAR@PURCCVM.BITNET writes:
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-
- > Hi!
- > I am taking a course in Decision Sciences and chose initially to review
- > the role of expert systems as a tool for modelling decision making under
- > uncertainty. However, as I went on with the review, I realised that
- > Probability Theories based on an amazing variety of aximatic foundations
- > are being used to capture uncertainty.
-
- For an AI treatment of uncertainty, you might want to look at
- Cohen's book. It may add to the variety of the approaches about
- which you have read, since it deals with the problems of
- representing uncertainty qualitatively.
-
- AUTHOR: Cohen, Paul R.
- TITLE: Heuristic reasoning about uncertainty, an artificial
- intelligence
- approach, Paul R. Cohen
- PUBLISHED: London, Pitman, 1985
- SERIES: Research notes in artificial intelligence, 2
- ISBN: 0273086677
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