List of contributors | |
Introduction | |
Statistical expert systems | p. 1 |
DEXPERT: an expert system for the design of experiments | p. 3 |
Inside two commercially available statistical expert systems | p. 17 |
AMIA: Aide a la Modelisation par l'Intelligence Artificielle (expert system for simulation modelling and sectoral forecasting) | p. 31 |
An architecture for knowledge-based statistical support systems | p. 39 |
Enhancing explanation capabilities of statistical expert systems through hypertext | p. 46 |
Measurement scales as metadata | p. 54 |
Belief networks | p. 65 |
On the design of belief networks for knowledge-based systems | p. 67 |
Lack-of-information based control in graphical belief systems | p. 82 |
Adaptive importance sampling for Bayesian networks applied to filtering problems | p. 90 |
Intelligent arc addition, belief propagation and utilization of parallel processors by probabilistic inference engines | p. 106 |
A new method for representing and solving Bayesian decision problems | p. 109 |
Learning | p. 139 |
Inferring causal structure in mixed populations | p. 141 |
A knowledge acquisition inductive system guided by empirical interpretation of derived results | p. 156 |
Incorporating statistical techniques into empirical symbolic learning systems | p. 168 |
Learning classification trees | p. 182 |
An analysis of two probabilistic model induction techniques | p. 202 |
Neural networks | p. 215 |
A robust back propagation algorithm for function approximation | p. 217 |
Maximum likelihood training of neural networks | p. 241 |
A connectionist knowledge acquisition tool: CONKAT | p. 256 |
Connectionist, rule-based, and Bayesian decision aids: an empirical comparison | p. 264 |
Text manipulation | p. 279 |
Statistical approaches to aligning sentences and identifying word correspondences in parallel texts: a report on work in progress | p. 281 |
Probabilistic text understanding | p. 295 |
The application of machine learning techniques in subject classification | p. 312 |
Other areas | p. 325 |
A statistical semantics for causation | p. 327 |
Admissible stochastic complexity models for classification problems | p. 335 |
Combining the probability judgements of experts: statistical and artificial intelligence approaches | p. 348 |
Randomness and independence in non-monotonic reasoning | p. 362 |
Consistent regions in probabilistic logic when using different norms | p. 370 |
A decision theoretic approach to controlling the cost of planning | p. 387 |
Index | p. 401 |
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