Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems: International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems Paris, France, June 30 – July 4, 1986 Selected and Extended Contributions

On the management of information imperfection in knowledge based systems....Pages 1-29
Representing knowledge and evidence for decision....Pages 30-40
Possibilistic qualification and default rules....Pages 41-57
Propagation of uncertainties and inaccuracies in knowledge-based system....Pages 58-65
Qualitative Markov networks....Pages 67-74
The principle of minimum specificity as a basis for evidential reasoning....Pages 75-84
Approximate inference and interval probabilities....Pages 85-94
Derivation of some results on monotone capacities by Mobius inversion....Pages 95-102
Using probability-density functions in the framework of evidential reasoning....Pages 103-110
O-theory: A probabilistic alternative to fuzzy set theory....Pages 111-119
Efficient deduction in fuzzy logic....Pages 121-136
Fuzziness and expert system generation....Pages 137-143
Fuzzy preferences in decision-making....Pages 144-150
An axiomatics for fuzzy information....Pages 151-158
Knowledge modelling in fuzzy expert systems....Pages 159-172
Some recent advances on the possibility measure theory....Pages 173-175
Probabilistic inferential engines in expert systems: How should the strength of rules be expressed?....Pages 177-188
A framework for assigning probabilities in knowledge-based systems....Pages 189-199
Probabilistic reasoning using graphs....Pages 200-202
A calculus for belief-intervals representation of uncertainty....Pages 203-216
Knowledge base organization in expert systems....Pages 217-224
A consistency-recovering system for inference engines....Pages 225-233
Credibility of abducible multiple causes of observed effects....Pages 234-244
Use of pattern classification in medical decision making....Pages 245-254
The use of fuzzy information retrieval techniques in construction of multi-centre knowledge-based systems....Pages 255-264
Application of possibility and necessity measures to documentary information retrieval....Pages 265-274
The use of fuzzy information retrieval in knowledge-based management of patients\' clinical profiles....Pages 275-282
Management of uncertainty in a medical expert system....Pages 283-293
Consensus and knowledge acquisition....Pages 294-306
Knowledge representation model which combines conceptual graphs and fuzziness for machine learning....Pages 307-318
An investigation of pictographic form in relation to mechanisms of knowledge acquisition....Pages 319-328
 HOLMES-I , a prolog-based reason maintenance system for collecting information from multiple experts....Pages 329-336
Modeling uncertainty in human perception....Pages 337-346
Uncertainty reduction techniques in an expert system for fault tree construction....Pages 347-356
Characterizing information measures: Approaching the end of an era....Pages 357-384
Characterization of some measures of information theory and the sum form functional equations — Generalized directed divergence — I....Pages 385-394
Information gain with preference....Pages 395-402
Information entropy and state observation of a dynamical system....Pages 403-405