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BaRT: A Bayesian Reasoning Tool for Knowledge Based Systems

Artificial Intelligence 2013-04-08 v1

Abstract

As the technology for building knowledge based systems has matured, important lessons have been learned about the relationship between the architecture of a system and the nature of the problems it is intended to solve. We are implementing a knowledge engineering tool called BART that is designed with these lessons in mind. BART is a Bayesian reasoning tool that makes belief networks and other probabilistic techniques available to knowledge engineers building classificatory problem solvers. BART has already been used to develop a decision aid for classifying ship images, and it is currently being used to manage uncertainty in systems concerned with analyzing intelligence reports. This paper discusses how state-of-the-art probabilistic methods fit naturally into a knowledge based approach to classificatory problem solving, and describes the current capabilities of BART.

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@article{arxiv.1304.1496,
  title  = {BaRT: A Bayesian Reasoning Tool for Knowledge Based Systems},
  author = {Lashon B. Booker and Naveen Hota and Connie Loggia Ramsey},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1304.1496},
  year   = {2013}
}

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Appears in Proceedings of the Fifth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI1989)

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