Generating Explanations for Evidential Reasoning
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چکیده
In this paper, we present two methods to provide explanations for reasoning with be lief functions in the valuation-based systems. One approach, inspired by Strat's method, is based on sensitivity analysis, but its com putation is simpler thus easier to implement than Strat 's. The other one is to examine the impact of evidence on the conclusion based on the measure of the information content in the evidence. We show the property of ad ditivity for the pieces of evidence that are conditional independent within the context of the valuation-based systems. We will give an example to show how these approaches are applied in an evidential network.
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