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Fusing multiple Bayesian knowledge sources

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Eugene Santos
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John Wilkinson *
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Eunice E. Santos
DOI:10.1016/j.ijar.2011.01.008delete
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Abstract

Abstract

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We address the problem of information fusion in uncertain environments. Imagine there are multiple experts building probabilistic models of the same situation and we wish to aggregate the information they provide. There are several problems we may run into by naively merging the information from each. For example, the experts may disagree on the probability of a certain event or they may disagree on the direction of causality between two events (e.g., one thinks A causes B while another thinks B causes A). They may even disagree on the entire structure of dependencies among a set of variables in a probabilistic network. In our proposed solution to this problem, we represent the probabilistic models as Bayesian Knowledge Bases (BKBs) and propose an algorithm called Bayesian knowledge fusion that allows the fusion of multiple BKBs into a single BKB that retains the information from all input sources. This allows for easy aggregation and de-aggregation of information from multiple expert sources and facilitates multi-expert decision making by providing a framework in which all opinions can be preserved and reasoned over. (C) 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Keywords:
Bayesian Knowledge Bases
Knowledge fusion
Probability theory

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International Journal of Approximate Reasoning cover
International Journal of Approximate Reasoning
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university of texas system
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