Synopses & Reviews
This is an introduction to the mathematical foundations of uncertain reasoning.
Review
"Those who value economic history's concern to establish what really happened will welcome the direction of attention to a problem of such contemporary interest as the multinational enterprise." Business History"The majority of the papers are historical studies of particular enterprises or areas between the 1860s and the Second World War...The collection will provide matter of interest to others besides economic historians." Economic History Review"This work is an outstanding mathematical treatment of uncertainty in knowledge-based systems. It provides, in a uunified manner, the needed fundamentals for theoretical approaches." L. State, Computing Reviews
Synopsis
An introduction to the mathematical foundations of the subject. This work will be welcomed by graduate students and research workers in logic, philosophy and computer science as a textbook for beginners.
Table of Contents
Introduction; 1. Motivation; 2. Belief as probability; 3. Justifying belief as probability; 4. Dempster-Shafer belief; 5. Truth-functional belief; 6. Inference processes; 7. Principles of uncertain reasoning; 8. Belief revision; 9. Independence; 10. Computational feasibility; 11. Uncertain reasoning in the predicate calculus; 12. Principles of predicate uncertain reasoning; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.