In the Indian Holy Book – THE UPANISADS (800 B.C.), man has been described as “the son of the Sublime” (“Amritasya Putra”). It is recorded in the first chapter of the Book of Genesis (First Book of Holy Hebrew Bible [The Old Testament (c. 200 B.C.)] that God made man in his own image after his likeness as the crowning glory of his creation. The Holy Koran (c. 630 A.D.) says : “God sends down no...

The Noisy-Or model is convenient for de­ scribing a class of uncertain relationships in Bayesian networks [Pearl 1988]. Pearl describes the Noisy-Or model for Boolean variables. Here we generalize the model to nary input and output variables and to ar­ bitrary functions other than the Boolean OR function. This generalization is a useful modeling aid for construction of Bayesian networks. We ill...