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Inferno: A Cautious Approach To Uncertain Inference

The Computer JournalPublished 1 March 1983Open access
J. R. Quinlan
Citations11
SJR quartileQ2
SJR score0.48
SNIP0.86
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TL;DR

A new system call INFERNO is introduced, which is probabilistic but makes no assumptions whatsoever about the joint probability distributions of pieces of knowledge, so the correctness of inferences can be guaranteed.

Abstract

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Keywords

Computer Science