A method for managing evidential reasoning in a hierarchical hypothesis space

A Method for Managing Evidential Reasoning in a Hierarchical Hypothesis Space

RES: A Relative Method for Evidential Reasoning

In this paper we describe a novel method for evidential reasoning [1]. It involves mod­ elling the process of evidential reasoning in three steps, namely, evidence structure con­ struction, evidence accumulation, and deci­ sion making. The proposed method, called 'RfS, is novel in that evidence strength is associated with an evidential support relationship (an argu­ ment) between a pair of stat...

Evidence Aggregation in Hierarchical Evidential Reasoning

Several reasoning tasks need to scale over the volume of evidence and the entities of interest. A technique used by statisticians is to represent a collection of evidence by the sufficient statistics of the data. This reduces the computation burden on the BN model significantly by representing a large set of records (and therefore nodes) with a single node. However, this procedure is not genera...

Evidential Reasoning in Parallel Hierarchical Vision Programs

This paper presents an efficient adaptation and application of the Dempster-Shafer theory of evidence, one that can be used effectively in a massively parallel hierarchical system for visual pattern perception. It describes the techniques used, and shows in an extended example how they serve to improve the system's performance as it applies a multiple-level set of processes.

passivity in waiting for godot and endgame: a psychoanalytic reading

this study intends to investigate samuel beckett’s waiting for godot and endgame under the lacanian psychoanalysis. it begins by explaining the most important concepts of lacanian psychoanalysis. the beckettian characters are studied regarding their state of unconscious, and not the state of consciousness as is common in most beckett studies. according to lacan, language plays the sole role in ...