Applications of Uncertainty Formalisms

Table of Contents Section A: Introduction Chapter 1: Introduction to uncertainty formalisms A Hunter and S Parsons Chapter 2: A Review of uncertainty handling formalisms S Parsons and A Hunter Section B: Application case studies Chapter 3: Using uncertainty management techniques in medical therapy planning: A decision-theoretic approach P Magni, R Bellazzi and F Locatelli Chapter 4: An ordinal approach to the processing of fuzzy queries with flexible quantifiers P Bosc, L Lietard and H Prade Chapter 5: Using uncertainty techniques in radio communication systems K van Dam Chapter 6: Handling imperfect knowledge handling in Milord II for the identification of marine sponges M Domingo, L Godo and C Sierra Chapter 7: Qualitative risk assessment fulfils a need P Krause, J Fox, P Judson and M Patel Chapter 8: Information retrieval and Dempster-Shafer's Theory of Evidence M Lalmas Chapter 9: Uncertainty measures associated with fuzzy rules for connection admission control in ATM Networks M Ramalho Chapter 10: Handling uncertainty in control of autonmous robots A Saffiotti Chapter 11: Some problems in trying to implement uncertainty techniques in automated inspection D Wilson, A Greig, J Gilby and R Smith Chapter 12: Correlation using uncertain and temporal information J Bigham Chapter 13: Arguing about beliefs and actions J Fox and S Parsons Chapter 14: Analysis of multi-interpretable ecological monitoring information F Brazier, J Engelfriet and J Treur Section C: Technology for applications Chapter 15: A local handling of inconsistent knowledge and default bases S Benferhat and L Garcia Chapter 16: The XRay system: An implementation platform for local query answering in default logics P Nicolas and T Schaub Chapter 17: Model-based diagnosis: A probabilistic extension A Tawfik and E Neufeld Chapter 18: Background to and perspectives on possibilistic graphical models J Gebhardt and R Kruse Chapter 19: How much does an agent believe: An extension of modal epistemic logic S Das Chapter 20: Safety logics J Bell and Z Huang Chapter 21: Modelling uncertainty with propositional assumption-based systems R Haenni Author index Subject index