Uncertain Reasoner''s Companion - A Mathematical Perspective

Zusammenfassung An introduction to the mathematical foundations of the subject. This work will be welcomed by graduate students and research workers in logic! philosophy and computer science as a textbook for beginners. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Motivation; 2. Belief as probability; 3. Justifying belief as probability; 4. Dempster-Shafer belief; 5. Truth-functional belief; 6. Inference processes; 7. Principles of uncertain reasoning; 8. Belief revision; 9. Independence; 10. Computational feasibility; 11. Uncertain reasoning in the predicate calculus; 12. Principles of predicate uncertain reasoning; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.

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• Authors: J. B. Paris, J.b. Paris
• Assisted by: Samson Abramsky (Editor), C. J. van Rijsbergen (Editor), C. J. van Rijsbergen (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.11.2006
• EAN: 9780521032728
• ISBN: 978-0-521-03272-8
• Series: Print On Demand; Cambridge Tracts in Theoretica; Print on Demand
• Subjects: Guides; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology