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A Logic for Reasoning about Upper Probabilities

Artificial Intelligence 2014-08-08 v1 Logic in Computer Science

Abstract

We present a propositional logic to reason about the uncertainty of events, where the uncertainty is modeled by a set of probability measures assigning an interval of probability to each event. We give a sound and complete axiomatization for the logic, and show that the satisfiability problem is NP-complete, no harder than satisfiability for propositional logic.

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@article{arxiv.1408.1485,
  title  = {A Logic for Reasoning about Upper Probabilities},
  author = {Joseph Y. Halpern and Riccardo Pucella},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.1485},
  year   = {2014}
}

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Appears in Proceedings of the Seventeenth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI2001)

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