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Real-World Reasoning: Toward Scalable, Uncertain Spatiotemporal, Contextual and Causal Inference

Book information

Publisher
Atlantis Press
Year
2011
ISBN
9491216104, 9789491216107
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (3806074 bytes)
Series
Atlantis Thinking Machines
Edition
2011
Pages
278\280
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-03-17 08:49:25

Description

The general problem addressed in this book is a large and important one: how to usefully deal with huge storehouses of complex information about real-world situations. Every one of the major modes of interacting with such storehouses – querying, data mining, data analysis – is addressed by current technologies only in very limited and unsatisfactory ways. The impact of a solution to this problem would be huge and pervasive, as the domains of human pursuit to which such storehouses are acutely relevant is numerous and rapidly growing. Finally, we give a more detailed treatment of one potential solution with this class, based on our prior work with the Probabilistic Logic Networks (PLN) formalism. We show how PLN can be used to carry out realworld reasoning, by means of a number of practical examples of reasoning regarding human activities inreal-world situations.

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