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Probabilistic Reasoning about Actions in Nonmonotonic Causal Theories

Artificial Intelligence 2012-12-12 v1

Abstract

We present the language {m P}{cal C}+ for probabilistic reasoning about actions, which is a generalization of the action language {cal C}+ that allows to deal with probabilistic as well as nondeterministic effects of actions. We define a formal semantics of {m P}{cal C}+ in terms of probabilistic transitions between sets of states. Using a concept of a history and its belief state, we then show how several important problems in reasoning about actions can be concisely formulated in our formalism.

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@article{arxiv.1212.2461,
  title  = {Probabilistic Reasoning about Actions in Nonmonotonic Causal Theories},
  author = {Thomas Eiter and Thomas Lukasiewicz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1212.2461},
  year   = {2012}
}

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Appears in Proceedings of the Nineteenth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI2003)