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The Role of Tuning Uncertain Inference Systems

Artificial Intelligence 2013-04-11 v1

Abstract

This study examined the effects of "tuning" the parameters of the incremental function of MYCIN, the independent function of PROSPECTOR, a probability model that assumes independence, and a simple additive linear equation. me parameters of each of these models were optimized to provide solutions which most nearly approximated those from a full probability model for a large set of simple networks. Surprisingly, MYCIN, PROSPECTOR, and the linear equation performed equivalently; the independence model was clearly more accurate on the networks studied.

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@article{arxiv.1304.2748,
  title  = {The Role of Tuning Uncertain Inference Systems},
  author = {Ben P. Wise and Bruce M. Perrin and David S. Vaughan and Robert M. Yadrick},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1304.2748},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

Appears in Proceedings of the Third Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI1987)