A default conditional α → β has most often been informally interpreted as a defeasible version of a classical conditional, usually the material conditional. That is, the intui...
Formalisms and axiomatic theories are designed to support reasoning, they are often intended with a preferred interpretation and a targeted ontology. Questions of proper interpret...
Inconsistencies frequently occur in knowledge about the real-world. Some of these inconsistencies may be more significant than others, and some knowledgebases (sets of formulae) m...
Within the task of collaborative filtering two challenges for computing conditional probabilities exist. First, the amount of training data available is typically sparse with resp...
In recent years, there is a growing interest in learning Bayesian networks with continuous variables. Learning the structure of such networks is a computationally expensive proced...