The charter of SRC i s t o a d v ance both the state of knowledge and the state of the art in computer systems. From our establishment in 1984, we have performed basic and applied research to support Digital's business objectives. Our current work includes exploring distributed personal computing on multiple platforms, networking, programming technology, system modelling and management techniqu...

We overview the existing conditional independence concepts from the viewpoint of their relation to possibility theory. We will show that a suitable notion — from this perspective — seems to be strong independence in the wider framework of credal sets.

Possibility is considered as a promising mathematical tool to represent that particular case of incomplete information given by a measurement result. A measurement result can be affected by systematic and random effects. The combination of random contributions in the possibility theory returns only approximated results, and it is important to identify an optimal combination method to obtain acc...

This paper is about the relation between contrast and ‘prominent positions’ − i.e. onsets, stressed syllables, and root-initial syllables.1 A number of works have assumed that only one of the three logically possible relations between contrast and prominent positions exists: namely that contrasts in non-prominent positions are always a subset of those in prominent positions. This situation is i...

Predictive accuracy is the sum of two kinds of uncertainty–natural variability and modeling uncertainty. This paper addresses the quantification of predictive accuracy of complex simulation models from two perspectives. First, it recognizes that there is a difference between variability and modeling uncertainty; the former can not be reduced with more test information, while the latter can. We ...

Boolean games offer a compact alternative to normal-form games, by encoding the goal of each agent as a propositional formula. In this paper, we show how this framework can be naturally extended to model situations in which agents are uncertain about other agents’ goals. We first use uncertainty measures from possibility theory to semantically define (solution concepts to) Boolean games with in...

Real options modeling, which extends the ability of option pricing models to evaluate real assets, can be used to evaluate risky projects because of its capacity to handle uncertainties. This research utilizes possibility theory to represent private risks of a project, which are not reflected in the market and hence are not fully evaluated by standard option pricing models. Using a transformati...

| The introduction of a notion of independence in possibility theory is a problem of long-standing interest. The deenitions that have up to now been given in the literature face some diiculties as far as interpretation is concerned. Also, there are inconsistencies between the deenition of independence of measurable sets and possibilistic variables. After a discussion of these deenitions and the...