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Qualitative methods for reasoning under uncertainty /
In this book Simon Parsons describes qualitative methods for reasoning under uncertainty, "uncertainty" being a catch-all term for various types of imperfect information. The advantage of qualitative methods is that they do not require precise numerical information. Instead, they work with...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
©2001.
©2001 |
| Colección: | Artificial Intelligence Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In this book Simon Parsons describes qualitative methods for reasoning under uncertainty, "uncertainty" being a catch-all term for various types of imperfect information. The advantage of qualitative methods is that they do not require precise numerical information. Instead, they work with abstractions such as interval values and information about how values change. The author does not invent completely new methods for reasoning under uncertainty but provides the means to create qualitative versions of existing methods. To illustrate this, he develops qualitative versions of probability theory, possibility theory, and the Dempster-Shafer theory of evidence. According to Parsons, these theories are best considered complementary rather than exclusive. Thus the book supports the contention that rather than search for the one best method to handle all imperfect information, one should use whichever method best fits the problem. This approach leads naturally to the use of several different methods in the solution of a single problem and to the complexity of integrating the results--a problem to which qualitative methods provide a solution |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xviii, 506 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 457-497) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780262256773 0262256770 9780262161688 0262161680 0262528746 9780262528740 0585490228 9780585490229 0262293307 9780262293303 |