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Belief Models and Certainty Factors

This approach has been suggested by Shortliffe and Buchanan and used in their famous medical diagnosis MYCIN system.…

July 15, 2021 · Rajil TL
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Symbolic versus statistical reasoning

The (Symbolic) methods basically represent uncertainty belief as being True, False, or Neither True nor False. Some methods also…

July 15, 2021 · Rajil TL
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Implementations: Truth Maintenance Systems

A variety of Truth Maintenance Systems (TMS) have been developed as a means of implementing Non-Monotonic Reasoning Systems. Basically TMSs:…

July 15, 2021 · Rajil TL
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Circumscription

Circumscription is a rule of conjecture that allows you to jump to the conclusion that the objects you can…

July 15, 2021 · Rajil TL
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Non-Monotonic Reasoning

Predicate logic and the inferences we perform on it is an example of monotonic reasoning. In monotonic reasoning if we…

July 15, 2021 · Rajil TL
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Reasoning with Uncertainty

What is reasoning? When we require any knowledge system to do something it has not been explicitly told…

July 15, 2021 · Rajil TL
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Conceptual Dependency (CD)

Conceptual Dependency originally developed to represent knowledge acquired from natural language input. The goals of this theory are:…

July 15, 2021 · Rajil TL
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Scripts

A script is a structure that prescribes a set of circumstances which could be expected to follow on from one…

July 15, 2021 · Rajil TL
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Strong Slot and Filler Structures

Strong Slot and Filler Structures typically: Represent links between objects according to more rigid rules. Specific notions of what types of…

July 15, 2021 · Rajil TL