Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems

Subject Index

A

Abduction, 7, 19, 381

Active paths, 118

Adams’

axioms, 516

logic, 25, 480, 485, 516

Answering queries, 223, 279

Antecedents, 440

Anticipatory nodes, 170, 181, 256

Arc reversal, 310

Assumption-based reasoning, 17, 205, 261, 472

see Conditioning

Assumptions, behind ruler, 440, 450, 451

ATMS, 452

numerical uncertainties in, 455

Attention, controlling, 324

Axioms

of “almost all”, 480, 516

of conditional independence, 84

of d-separation, 128

of graph separation, 94

of probability, 16, 27, 30

B

Basic probability assignment, 420

Bayes conditionalization, 17, 64, 68, 71

Bayes’ Rule, 17, 34, 55

history of, 70

Bayesian belief networks, 125

Bayesian networks, 13, 50, 116–117, 119, 125

advantages of, 116

construction, 119, 122

expressiveness, ...