Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty: 9th European Conference, ECSQARU 2007, Hammamet, Tunisia, October 31 – November 2, 2007. Proceedings

Thierry Denœux (auth.), Khaled Mellouli (eds.)3540752552, 9783540752554

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty, ECSQARU 2007, held in Hammammet, Tunisia, October 2007.

The 78 revised full papers presented together with three invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from over a hundred submissions for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in topical sections on Bayesian networks, graphical models, learning causal networks, planning, causality and independence, preference modeling and decision, argumentation systems, inconsistency handling, belief revision and merging, belief functions, fuzzy models, many-valued logical systems, uncertainty logics, probabilistic reasoning, reasoning models under uncertainty, uncertainty measures, probabilistic classifiers, classification and clustering, and industrial applications.

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Table of contents :
Front Matter….Pages –
Pattern Recognition and Information Fusion Using Belief Functions: Some Recent Developments….Pages 1-1
Causality and Dynamics of Beliefs in Qualitative Uncertainty Frameworks….Pages 2-3
Elements of Argumentation….Pages 4-4
Causal Graphical Models with Latent Variables: Learning and Inference….Pages 5-16
Learning Causal Bayesian Networks from Incomplete Observational Data and Interventions….Pages 17-29
Measuring Inconsistency for Description Logics Based on Paraconsistent Semantics….Pages 30-41
On the Dynamics of Total Preorders: Revising Abstract Interval Orders….Pages 42-53
Approaches to Constructing a Stratified Merged Knowledge Base….Pages 54-65
Syntactic Propositional Belief Bases Fusion with Removed Sets….Pages 66-77
COBA 2.0: A Consistency-Based Belief Change System….Pages 78-90
An Algorithm for Computing Inconsistency Measurement by Paraconsistent Semantics….Pages 91-102
How Dirty Is Your Relational Database? An Axiomatic Approach….Pages 103-114
A Top-Down Query Answering Procedure for Normal Logic Programs Under the Any-World Assumption….Pages 115-127
Measure Logic….Pages 128-138
Weak Implication in Terms of Conditional Uncertainty Measures….Pages 139-150
Language Invariance and Spectrum Exchangeability in Inductive Logic….Pages 151-160
Best Approximation of Ruspini Partitions in Gödel Logic….Pages 161-172
A Logical Approach to Qualitative and Quantitative Reasoning….Pages 173-186
Description Logic Programs Under Probabilistic Uncertainty and Fuzzy Vagueness….Pages 187-198
From DEL to EDL : Exploring the Power of Converse Events….Pages 199-209
Comparing Argumentation Semantics with Respect to Skepticism….Pages 210-221
An Algorithm for Computing Semi-stable Semantics….Pages 222-234
The Logical Handling of Threats, Rewards, Tips, and Warnings….Pages 235-246
On the Acceptability of Incompatible Arguments….Pages 247-258
Handling Ignorance in Argumentation: Semantics of Partial Argumentation Frameworks….Pages 259-270
Dialectical Proof Theories for the Credulous Prudent Preferred Semantics of Argumentation….Pages 271-282
Towards an Extensible Argumentation System….Pages 283-294
Dialectical Explanations in Defeasible Argumentation….Pages 295-307
Arguing over Actions That Involve Multiple Criteria: A Critical Review….Pages 308-319
Shared Ordered Binary Decision Diagrams for Dempster-Shafer Theory….Pages 320-331
Cautious Conjunctive Merging of Belief Functions….Pages 332-343
Consonant Belief Function Induced by a Confidence Set of Pignistic Probabilities….Pages 344-355
On the Orthogonal Projection of a Belief Function….Pages 356-367
On Latent Belief Structures….Pages 368-380
The DSm Approach as a Special Case of the Dempster-Shafer Theory….Pages 381-392
Interpreting Belief Functions as Dirichlet Distributions….Pages 393-404
Forward-Backward-Viterbi Procedures in the Transferable Belief Model for State Sequence Analysis Using Belief Functions….Pages 405-417
Uncertainty in Semantic Ontology Mapping: An Evidential Approach….Pages 418-429
Measures of Ruleset Quality Capable to Represent Uncertain Validity….Pages 430-442
A Discriminative Learning Method of TAN Classifier….Pages 443-452
Discriminative vs. Generative Learning of Bayesian Network Classifiers….Pages 453-464
PADUA Protocol: Strategies and Tactics….Pages 465-476
A Semi-naive Bayes Classifier with Grouping of Cases….Pages 477-488
Split Criterions for Variable Selection Using Decision Trees….Pages 489-500
Inference and Learning in Multi-dimensional Bayesian Network Classifiers….Pages 501-511
Combining Decision Trees Based on Imprecise Probabilities and Uncertainty Measures….Pages 512-523
Belief Classification Approach Based on Generalized Credal EM….Pages 524-535
Logical Compilation of Bayesian Networks with Discrete Variables….Pages 536-547
Local Monotonicity in Probabilistic Networks….Pages 548-559
Independence Decomposition in Dynamic Bayesian Networks….Pages 560-571
Average and Majority Gates: Combining Information by Means of Bayesian Networks….Pages 572-584
A Fast Hill-Climbing Algorithm for Bayesian Networks Structure Learning….Pages 585-597
On Directed and Undirected Propagation Algorithms for Bayesian Networks….Pages 598-610
Lexicographic Refinements of Sugeno Integrals….Pages 611-622
Algebraic Structures for Bipolar Constraint-Based Reasoning….Pages 623-634
A Revised Qualitative Choice Logic for Handling Prioritized Preferences….Pages 635-647
An Abstract Theory of Argumentation That Accommodates Defeasible Reasoning About Preferences….Pages 648-659
Relaxing Ceteris Paribus Preferences with Partially Ordered Priorities….Pages 660-671
Conceptual Uncertainty and Reasoning Tools….Pages 672-682
Reasoning with an Incomplete Information Exchange Policy….Pages 683-694
Qualitative Constraint Enforcement in Advanced Policy Specification….Pages 695-706
A Qualitative Hidden Markov Model for Spatio-temporal Reasoning….Pages 707-718
A Multiobjective Resource-Constrained Project-Scheduling Problem….Pages 719-730
Extending Classical Planning to the Multi-agent Case: A Game-Theoretic Approach….Pages 731-742
Dependencies Between Players in Boolean Games….Pages 743-754
The Use of Fuzzy t-Conorm Integral for Combining Classifiers….Pages 755-766
Integrated Query Answering with Weighted Fuzzy Rules….Pages 767-778
On Decision Support Under Risk by the WOWA Optimization….Pages 779-790
Transposing the Sociology of Organized Action into a Fuzzy Environment….Pages 791-802
An Axiomatization of Conditional Possibilistic Preference Functionals….Pages 803-815
Conflict Analysis and Merging Operators Selection in Possibility Theory….Pages 816-827
Extending Description Logics with Uncertainty Reasoning in Possibilistic Logic….Pages 828-839
Information Affinity: A New Similarity Measure for Possibilistic Uncertain Information….Pages 840-852
Measuring the Quality of Health-Care Services: A Likelihood-Based Fuzzy Modeling Approach….Pages 853-864
Automatic Indexing from a Thesaurus Using Bayesian Networks: Application to the Classification of Parliamentary Initiatives….Pages 865-877
A Genetic Programming Classifier Design Approach for Cell Images….Pages 878-888
Use of Radio Frequency Identification for Targeted Advertising: A Collaborative Filtering Approach Using Bayesian Networks….Pages 889-900
Development of an Intelligent Assessment System for Solo Taxonomies Using Fuzzy Logic….Pages 901-911
Back Matter….Pages –