Currently, there is renewed interest in the problem, raised by Shafer in 1985, of updating probabilities when observations are incomplete (or setvalued). This is a fundamental pro...
Selecting an optimum maintenance policy independent of other parameters of the production system does not always yield the overall optimum operating conditions. For instance, high...
A critical issue in advanced technology product development is assessing economic feasibility based on the potential for commercial success. This is particularly difficult for an ...
Decision theory does not traditionally include uncertainty over utility functions. We argue that the a person's utility value for a given outcome can be treated as we treat o...
While complete understanding of arbitrary input text remains in the future, it is currently possible to construct natural language processing systems that provide a partial unders...
Peggy M. Andersen, Philip J. Hayes, Steven P. Wein...