Counterfactual dependency and actual causation in CP-logic and structural models: A comparison

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications

Volumn 241, Issue , 2012, Pages 35-46

  Beckers, Sander ^a,b   Vennekens, Joost ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b Campus de Nayer   (Belgium)

Author keywords

causation sep counterfactual dependence; CP logic; structural models

Indexed keywords

CAUSATION SEP COUNTERFACTUAL DEPENDENCE; COUNTERFACTUALS; CP-LOGIC; LOGIC MODELS; STRUCTURAL MODELING;

COMPUTER CIRCUITS;

EID: 84879118218     PISSN: 09226389     EISSN: 18798314     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-61499-096-3-35     Document Type: Conference Paper

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