Causality and Dynamics of Beliefs in Qualitative Uncertainty Frameworks

  • Authors:
  • Salem Benferhat

  • Affiliations:
  • CRIL-CNRS, université d'Artois. Rue Jean Souvraz, Lens Cedex, France 62307

  • Venue:
  • ECSQARU '07 Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Causality and belief changes play an important role in many applications. Recently, Pearl [6] has proposed approaches based on probability theory using causal graphs to give formal semantics to the notion of interventions. From representational point of view, interventions are distinguished from observations using the concept of the "do" operator [4]. From reasoning point of view, handling interventions consists in "ignoring" the effects of all direct (and undirected) causes related to the variable of interest.