Belief networks revisited

✍ Scribed by Judea Pearl

• Book ID: 102639908
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1993
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 474 KB
• Volume: 59
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0004-3702
• DOI: 10.1016/0004-3702(93)90169-c

✦ Synopsis

versatility and power and are now considered the most common representation scheme for probabilistic knowledge. They have been used to aid diagnosis of medical patients and malfunctioning systems, to understand stories, to interpret pictures, to perform filtering, smoothing and prediction, to facilitate planning in uncertain environments, and to study causation, nonmonotonicity, action, change, and attention, l

The following is a brief personal account of the development of belief networks, both before and after the publication of Fusion, although space permits but a sketchy account of the wealth of recent developments in this area. 2