Belief Maintenance: An Integrated Approach to Uncertainty Management

Abstract

Belief maintenance represents a unified approach to assumption-based and numerical uncertainty management. A formal equivalence is demonstrated between Shafer-Dempster belief theory and assumption-based truth maintenance extended to incorporate a probability calculus on assumptions. Belief propagation through truth maintenance automatically and correctly accounts for non-independencies among propositions due to shared antecedents. Belief maintenance also incorporates an ability to represent and reason with defaults. The result is a framework for non-monotonic reasoning about the application of a quantitative uncertainty calculus.

Cite

Text

Laskey and Lehner. "Belief Maintenance: An Integrated Approach to Uncertainty Management." AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1988.

Markdown

[Laskey and Lehner. "Belief Maintenance: An Integrated Approach to Uncertainty Management." AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1988.](https://mlanthology.org/aaai/1988/laskey1988aaai-belief/)

BibTeX

@inproceedings{laskey1988aaai-belief,
  title     = {{Belief Maintenance: An Integrated Approach to Uncertainty Management}},
  author    = {Laskey, Kathryn B. and Lehner, Paul E.},
  booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  year      = {1988},
  pages     = {210-214},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/aaai/1988/laskey1988aaai-belief/}
}