Lazy propagation and independence of causal influence

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1638, Issue , 1999, Pages 293-304

  Madsen, Anders L ^a   D’Ambrosio, Bruce ^b  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b Oregon State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; INFERENCE ENGINES;

CAUSAL INFLUENCES; DECOMPOSITION TREES; LOCAL EXPRESSION; PROBABILISTIC INFERENCE;

FORESTRY;

EID: 0141667436     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-48747-6_27     Document Type: Conference Paper

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