Axioms of causal relevance

Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 97, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 9-43

  Galles, David ^a   Pearl, Judea ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Actions; Causal models; Causality; Counterfactuals; Graphoids

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; GRAPHIC METHODS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY; THEOREM PROVING;

COUNTERFACTUALS; PROBABILISTIC CAUSAL RELEVANCE;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 0031374249     PISSN: 00043702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0004-3702(97)00047-7     Document Type: Article

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