Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty: 6th European Conference, ECSQARU 2001, Toulouse, France, September 2001 Proceedings (LNAI 2143) Book

	Graphical Models as Languages for Computer Assisted Diagnosis and Decision Making	1
	Planning with Uncertainty and Incomplete Information	16
	What's Your Preference? And How to Express and Implement It in Logic Programming!	17
	On Preference Representation on an Ordinal Scale	18
	Rule-Based Decision Support in Multicriteria Choice and Ranking	29
	Propositional Distances and Preference Representation	48
	Value Iteration over Belief Subspace	60
	Space-Progressive Value Iteration: An Anytime Algorithm for a Class of POMDPs	72
	Reasoning about Intentions in Uncertain Domains	84
	Troubleshooting with Simultaneous Models	96
	A Rational Conditional Utility Model in a Coherent Framework	108
	Probabilistic Reasoning as a General Unifying Tool	120
	An Operational View of Coherent Conditional Previsions	132
	Decomposition of Influence Diagrams	144
	Mixtures of Truncated Exponentials in Hybrid Bayesian Networks	156
	Importance Sampling in Bayesian Networks Using Antithetic Variables	168
	Using Recursive Decomposition to Construct Elimination Orders, Join Trees, and Dtrees	180
	Caveats for Causal Reasoning with Equilibrium Models	192
	Supporting Changes in Structure in Causal Model Construction	204
	The Search of Causal Orderings: A Short Cut for Learning Belief Networks	216
	Stochastic Local Algorithms for Learning Belief Networks: Searching in the Space of the Orderings	228
	An Empirical Investigation of the K2 Metric	240
	Sequential Valuation Networks: A New Graphical Technique for Asymmetric Decision Problems	252
	A Two-Steps Algorithm for Min-Based Possibilistic Causal Networks	266
	Computing Intervals of Probabilities with Simulated Annealing and Probability Trees	278
	Probabilistic Logic under Coherence, Model-Theoretic Probabilistic Logic, and Default Reasoning	290
	Belief Functions with Partially Ordered Values	303
	Dempster Specialization Matrices and the Combination of Belief Functions	316
	On the Conceptual Status of Belief Functions with Respect to Coherent Lower Probabilities	328
	About Conditional Belief Function Independence	340
	The Evaluation of Sensors' Reliability and Their Tuning for Multisensor Data Fusion within the Transferable Belief Model	350
	Coarsening Approximations of Belief Functions	362
	Label Semantics: A Formal Framework for Modeling with Words	374
	Reasoning about Knowledge Using Rough Sets	385
	The Capacity of a Possibilistic Channel	398
	New Semantics for Quantitative Possibility Theory	410
	Bridging Logical, Comparative, and Graphical Possibilistic Representation frameworks	422
	Ellipse Fitting with Uncertainty and Fuzzy Decision Stage for Detection. Application in Videomicroscopy	432
	Probabilistic Modeling for Software Quality Control	444
	Spatial Information Revision: A Comparison between 3 Approaches	454
	Social Choice, Merging, and Elections	466
	Data Merging: Theory of Evidence vs. Knowledge-Bases Merging Operators	478
	A Priori Revision	488
	Some Operators for Iterated Revision	498
	On Computing Solutions to Belief Change Scenarios	510
	'Not Impossible' vs. 'Guaranteed Possible' in Fusion and Revision	522
	General Preferential Entailments as Circumscriptions	532
	A Semantic Tableau Version of First-Order Quasi-Classical Logic	544
	On Anytime Coherence-Based Reasoning	556
	Resolving Conflicts between Beliefs, Obligations, Intentions, and Desires	568
	Comparing a Pair-Wise Compatibility Heuristic and Relaxed Stratification: Some Preliminary Results	580
	How to Reason Credulously and Skeptically within a Single Extension	592
	Handling Conditionals Adequately in Uncertain Reasoning	604
	Rankings We Prefer - A Minimal Construction Semantics for Default Reasoning	616
	Formalizing Human Uncertain Reasoning with Default Rules: A Psychological Conundrum and a Pragmatic Suggestion	628
	Statistical Information, Uncertainty, and Bayes' Theorem: Some Applications in Experimental Psychology	635
	Polymorphism of Human Judgment under Uncertainty	647
	How to Doubt about a Conditional	659
	Dialectical Proof Theories for the Credulous Preferred Semantics of Argumentation Frameworks	668
	Argumentation and Qualitative Probabilistic Reasoning Using the Kappa Calculus	680
	Importance Measures from Reliability Theory for Probabilistic Assumption-Based Reasoning	692
	Ramification in the Normative Method of Causality	704
	Simultaneous Events: Conflicts and Preferences	714
	Orthogonal Relations for Reasoning about Abstract Events	726
	Explanatory Relations Based on Mathematical Morphology	736
	Monotonic and Resituated Logic Programs	748
	A Proof Procedure for Possibilistic Logic Programming with Fuzzy Constants	760
	First-Order Characterization and Modal Analysis of Indiscernibility and Complementarity in Information Systems	772
	Complete and Incomplete Knowledge in Logical Information Systems	782
	Extending Polynomiality to a Class of Non-clausal Many-Valued Horn-Like Formulas	792
	A Genetic Algorithm for Satisfiability Problem in a Probabilistic Logic: A First Report	805
	Authors Index	817