Title: Building coherent probabilty models from incoherent judgment
using Genetic Algorithms and Algebraic Decision Diagrams
Speaker: Spyros Tsavachidis
Abstract:
  • We need to account for uncertainty when we design expert systems
  • Probability theory has been the most successful mathematical tool for describing uncertainty
  • Goal: Build useful models that reflect the probabilistic structure of a problem domain of interest.
  • Discover and efficiently represent the underlying probability distribution
  • The constructed model must answer quickly to queries concerning probabilities of complex events (inference)