Formal model of uncertainty for possibilistic rules

  • Authors:
  • Arthur Ramer;Leslie Lander

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK;SUNY-Binghamton, Binghamton, NY

  • Venue:
  • UAI'91 Proceedings of the Seventh conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 1991

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Abstract

Given a universe of discourse X--a domain of possible outcomes--an experiment may consist of selecting one of its elements, subject to the operation of chance, or of observing the elements, subject to imprecision. A priori uncertainty about the actual result of the experiment may be quantified, representing either the likelihood of the choice of x ∈ X or the degree to which any such x ∈ X would be suitable as a description of the outcome. The former case corresponds to a probability distribution, while the latter gives a possibility assignment on X.