Propagating Probabilities in System P

May 1998

Proceedings of the Eleventh International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS 1998)

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Proceedings of the Eleventh International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS 1998)

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In this paper we suggest a way of using the rules of System P to propagate lower bounds on conditional probabilities. Using a knowledge base of default rules which art, considered to be constraints on a probability distribut ion, the result of applying the rules of P gives us new constraints that were implicit in the knowledge base and their associated lower bounds.