International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, Volume 50

Volume 50, Number 1, January 2009

Recent advances in soft computing in image processing

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  Mike Nachtegael, Etienne E. Kerre, Sergio Damas, Dietrich Van der Weken:
  Special issue on recent advances in soft computing in image processing. 1-2
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  Rúbia E. O. Schultz, Tania Mezzadri Centeno, Gilles Selleron, Myriam Regattieri Delgado:
  A soft computing-based approach to spatio-temporal prediction. 3-20
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  Barnabás Bede, Emil D. Schwab, Hajime Nobuhara, Imre J. Rudas:
  Approximation by Shepard type pseudo-linear operators and applications to Image Processing. 21-36
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  Susmita Ghosh, Swarnajyoti Patra, Ashish Ghosh:
  An unsupervised context-sensitive change detection technique based on modified self-organizing feature map neural network. 37-50
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  Mayank Vatsa, Richa Singh, Afzel Noore, Max M. Houck:
  Quality-augmented fusion of level-2 and level-3 fingerprint information using DSm theory. 51-61

Selected papers from NAFIPS 2006

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  Kudret Demirli:
  Selected papers from NAFIPS 2006, 2006 Annual Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society. 62
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  Carol L. Walker, Elbert A. Walker:
  Sets with type-2 operations. 63-71
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  Marek Reformat, Cuong Ly:
  Ontological approach to development of computing with words based systems. 72-91
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  Brigitte Jaumard, A. D. Parreira:
  An anytime deduction algorithm for the probabilistic logic and entailment problems. 92-103
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  Bernard De Baets, Saskia Janssens, Hans De Meyer:
  On the transitivity of a parametric family of cardinality-based similarity measures. 104-116
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  Alebachew D. Yimer, Kudret Demirli:
  Fuzzy scheduling of job orders in a two-stage flowshop with batch-processing machines. 117-137

Regular papers

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  Tommaso Flaminio, Franco Montagna:
  MV-algebras with internal states and probabilistic fuzzy logics. 138-152
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  Kristian S. Ahlmann-Ohlsen, Finn Verner Jensen, Thomas D. Nielsen, Ole Pedersen, Marta Vomlelová:
  A comparison of two approaches for solving unconstrained influence diagrams. 153-173
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  Yuhua Qian, Jiye Liang, Chuangyin Dang:
  Knowledge structure, knowledge granulation and knowledge distance in a knowledge base. 174-188
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  Koen Maes, Bernard De Baets:
  Commutativity and self-duality: Two tales of one equation. 189-199

Volume 50, Number 2, February 2009

The Imprecise Dirichlet Model

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  Jean-Marc Bernard:
  The imprecise Dirichlet model. 201-203
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  Gert de Cooman, Enrique Miranda, Erik Quaeghebeur:
  Representation insensitivity in immediate prediction under exchangeability. 204-216
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  Frank P. A. Coolen, Thomas Augustin:
  A nonparametric predictive alternative to the Imprecise Dirichlet Model: The case of a known number of categories. 217-230
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  Marcus Hutter:
  Practical robust estimators for the imprecise Dirichlet model. 231-242
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  Erik Quaeghebeur, Gert de Cooman:
  Learning in games using the imprecise Dirichlet model. 243-256
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  Matthias C. M. Troffaes, Frank P. A. Coolen:
  Applying the imprecise Dirichlet model in cases with partial observations and dependencies in failure data. 257-268

Bayesian Robustness (Issues in Imprecise Probability)

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  Fabrizio Ruggeri:
  Preface. 269
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  B. O'Neill:
  Importance sampling for Bayesian sensitivity analysis. 270-278
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  Bruno Betrò:
  Numerical treatment of Bayesian robustness problems. 279-288
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  Christophe Abraham:
  A computation method in robust Bayesian decision theory. 289-302
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  José Pablo Arias-Nicolás, Jacinto Martín, Fabrizio Ruggeri, Alfonso Suárez-Llorens:
  Optimal actions in problems with convex loss functions. 303-314
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  J. Martín, C. J. Pérez, Peter Müller:
  Bayesian robustness for decision making problems: Applications in medical contexts. 315-323

Regular papers

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  Abraham Otero, Paulo Félix, Senén Barro:
  A fuzzy constraint satisfaction approach for signal abstraction. 324-340
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  Aritz Pérez Martínez, Pedro Larrañaga, Iñaki Inza:
  Bayesian classifiers based on kernel density estimation: Flexible classifiers. 341-362
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  Maurizio Filippone:
  Dealing with non-metric dissimilarities in fuzzy central clustering algorithms. 363-384
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  Milan Studený, Jirí Vomlel:
  A reconstruction algorithm for the essential graph. 385-413

Volume 50, Number 3, March 2009

Bayesian Modelling

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  Linda C. van der Gaag, Russell G. Almond:
  Preface. 415
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  Alex Dekhtyar, Judy Goldsmith, Beth Goldstein, Krol Kevin Mathias, Cynthia Isenhour:
  Planning for success: The interdisciplinary approach to building Bayesian models. 416-428
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  Linda C. van der Gaag, Hermina J. M. Tabachneck-Schijf, Petra L. Geenen:
  Verifying monotonicity of Bayesian networks with domain experts. 429-436
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  Sean L. Guarino, Jonathan D. Pfautz, Zach Cox, Emilie M. Roth:
  Modeling human reasoning about meta-information. 437-449
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  Russell G. Almond, Valerie J. Shute, Jody S. Underwood, Juan-Diego Zapata-Rivera:
  Bayesian networks: A teacher's view. 450-460
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  Hermina J. M. Tabachneck-Schijf, Petra L. Geenen:
  Preventing knowledge transfer errors: Probabilistic decision support systems through the users' eyes. 461-471

Regular papers

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  Txomin Romero, Pedro Larrañaga:
  Triangulation of Bayesian networks with recursive estimation of distribution algorithms. 472-484
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  Kaj-Mikael Björk:
  An analytical solution to a fuzzy economic order quantity problem. 485-493
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  Fernando Bobillo, Miguel Delgado, Juan Gómez-Romero, Umberto Straccia:
  Fuzzy description logics under Gödel semantics. 494-514
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  Li-Bo Li, Shu-Hong He, Shu Li, Jie-Hong Xu, Li-Lin Rao:
  A closer look at the Russian roulette problem: A re-examination of the nonlinearity of the prospect theory's decision weight pi. 515-520
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  Guilong Liu, Ying Sai:
  A comparison of two types of rough sets induced by coverings. 521-528
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  T. Vijayan, M. Kumaran:
  Fuzzy economic order time models with random demand. 529-540
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  Luis de la Ossa, José A. Gámez, José Miguel Puerta:
  Learning weighted linguistic fuzzy rules by using specifically-tailored hybrid estimation of distribution algorithms. 541-560
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  Alberto Fernández, María José del Jesús, Francisco Herrera:
  Hierarchical fuzzy rule based classification systems with genetic rule selection for imbalanced data-sets. 561-577
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  Xiaojun Ban, Xiao Zhi Gao, Xianlin Huang:
  Comments on "Stability analysis for a class of Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy control systems with PID controllers". 578-579

Volume 50, Number 4, April 2009

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  Thomas Augustin, Enrique Miranda, Jirina Vejnarová:
  Imprecise probability models and their applications. 581-582
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  Elmar Kriegler:
  Updating under unknown unknowns: An extension of Bayes' rule. 583-596
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  Alberto Piatti, Marco Zaffalon, Fabio Trojani, Marcus Hutter:
  Limits of learning about a categorical latent variable under prior near-ignorance. 597-611
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  Renato Pelessoni, Paolo Vicig:
  Williams coherence and beyond. 612-626
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  P. I. Fierens:
  An extension of chaotic probability models to real-valued variables. 627-641
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  Robert Hable:
  Data-based decisions under imprecise probability and least favorable models. 642-654
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  Matthias C. M. Troffaes:
  Finite approximations to coherent choice. 655-665
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  Alessandro Antonucci, Ralph Brühlmann, Alberto Piatti, Marco Zaffalon:
  Credal networks for military identification problems. 666-679
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  Michael Oberguggenberger, Julian King, Bernhard Schmelzer:
  Classical and imprecise probability methods for sensitivity analysis in engineering: A case study. 680-693

Volume 50, Number 5, May 2009

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  Hongliang Lai, Dexue Zhang:
  Concept lattices of fuzzy contexts: Formal concept analysis vs. rough set theory. 695-707
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  Frank van Kouwen, Silja Renooij, Paul P. Schot:
  Inference in qualitative probabilistic networks revisited. 708-720
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  Gil González-Rodríguez, Ana Colubi, Pierpaolo D'Urso, Manuel Montenegro:
  Multi-sample test-based clustering for fuzzy random variables. 721-731
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  Rafael Muñoz-Salinas, Rafael Medina Carnicer, Francisco José Madrid-Cuevas, Ángel Carmona Poyato:
  Multi-camera people tracking using evidential filters. 732-749
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  Diego A. Alvarez:
  Reduction of uncertainty using sensitivity analysis methods for infinite random sets of indexable type. 750-762
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  Esma Nur Cinicioglu, Prakash P. Shenoy:
  Arc reversals in hybrid Bayesian networks with deterministic variables. 763-777
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  Lev V. Utkin, Sébastien Destercke:
  Computing expectations with continuous p-boxes: Univariate case. 778-798
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  Janusz T. Starczewski:
  Efficient triangular type-2 fuzzy logic systems. 799-811
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  Ronald R. Yager:
  Comparing approximate reasoning and probabilistic reasoning using the Dempster-Shafer framework. 812-821

Volume 50, Number 6, June 2009

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  Khaled Mellouli, Zied Elouedi, Nahla Ben Amor, Boutheina Ben Yaghlane:
  Special Issue on the Ninth European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty (ECSQARU 2007). 823-824
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  Pietro Codara, Ottavio M. D'Antona, Vincenzo Marra:
  An analysis of Ruspini partitions in Gödel logic. 825-836
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  Thomas Lukasiewicz, Umberto Straccia:
  Description logic programs under probabilistic uncertainty and fuzzy vagueness. 837-853
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  Pietro Baroni, Massimiliano Giacomin:
  Skepticism relations for comparing argumentation semantics. 854-866
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  Martin Holena:
  Measures of ruleset quality for general rules extraction methods. 867-879
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  Didier Dubois, Hélène Fargier:
  Making Discrete Sugeno Integrals More Discriminant. 880-898
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  Elise Bonzon, Marie-Christine Lagasquie-Schiex, Jérôme Lang:
  Dependencies between players in Boolean games. 899-914
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  Wlodzimierz Ogryczak, Tomasz Sliwinski:
  On efficient WOWA optimization for decision support under risk. 915-928

Volume 50, Number 7, July 2009

Graphical models and information retrieval

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  Juan M. Fernández-Luna, Juan F. Huete, Benjamin Piwowarski:
  Introduction to the special issue on Graphical Models and Information Retrieval. 929-931
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  Luis M. de Campos, Alfonso E. Romero:
  Bayesian network models for hierarchical text classification from a thesaurus. 932-944
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  Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio:
  Using scatterplots to understand and improve probabilistic models for text categorization and retrieval. 945-956
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  Mohand Boughanem, Asma Brini, Didier Dubois:
  Possibilistic networks for information retrieval. 957-968
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  Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Geoffrey E. Hinton:
  Semantic hashing. 969-978

Regular papers

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  Jerzy Blaszczynski, Salvatore Greco, Roman Slowinski, Marcin Szelag:
  Monotonic Variable Consistency Rough Set Approaches. 979-999
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  Abdelaziz Kallel, Sylvie Le Hégarat-Mascle:
  Combination of partially non-distinct beliefs: The cautious-adaptive rule. 1000-1021
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  Minghu Ha, Hong Zhang, Witold Pedrycz, Hong-Jie Xing:
  The expected value models on Sugeno measure space. 1022-1035
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  Youlong Yang, Yan Wu:
  VC dimension and inner product space induced by Bayesian networks. 1036-1045
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  Yakov Ben-Haim, Clifford C. Dacso, Jonathon Carrasco, Nithin O. Rajan:
  Heterogeneous uncertainties in cholesterol management. 1046-1065
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  Michela Antonelli, Pietro Ducange, Beatrice Lazzerini, Francesco Marcelloni:
  Learning concurrently partition granularities and rule bases of Mamdani fuzzy systems in a multi-objective evolutionary framework. 1066-1080
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  Doraid M. Dalalah:
  Piecewise parametric polynomial fuzzy sets. 1081-1096
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  Marco Baioletti, Giuseppe Busanello, Barbara Vantaggi:
  Conditional independence structure and its closure: Inferential rules and algorithms. 1097-1114
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  Robert Hable:
  Finite approximations of data-based decision problems under imprecise probabilities. 1115-1128
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  Sungjun Hong, Heesung Lee, Euntai Kim:
  A new probabilistic fuzzy model: Fuzzification-Maximization (FM) approach. 1129-1147

Volume 50, Number 8, September 2009

Special Section: Interval/probabilistic uncertainty

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  Van-Nam Huynh, Vladik Kreinovich:
  Interval/Probabilistic Uncertainty: Editorial. 1149-1150
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  Jeff B. Paris, David Picado-Muiño, Michael Rosefield:
  Inconsistency as qualified truth: A probability logic approach. 1151-1163
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  Hung T. Nguyen, Olga Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich, Scott Ferson:
  Trade-off between sample size and accuracy: Case of measurements under interval uncertainty. 1164-1176
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  Yongchuan Tang, Jonathan Lawry:
  Linguistic modelling and information coarsening based on prototype theory and label semantics. 1177-1198
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  Masahiro Inuiguchi, Yukihiro Yoshioka, Yoshifumi Kusunoki:
  Variable-precision dominance-based rough set approach and attribute reduction. 1199-1214
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  Yasuo Kudo, Tetsuya Murai, Seiki Akama:
  A granularity-based framework of deduction, induction, and abduction. 1215-1226

Regular papers

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  Guangquan Zhang, Tharam S. Dillon, Kai-Yuan Cai, Jun Ma, Jie Lu:
  Operation properties and delta-equalities of complex fuzzy sets. 1227-1249
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  Radim Belohlávek:
  Optimal triangular decompositions of matrices with entries from residuated lattices. 1250-1258
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  Mohamed Ayman Boujelben, Yves De Smet, Ahmed Frikha, Habib Chabchoub:
  Building a binary outranking relation in uncertain, imprecise and multi-experts contexts: The application of evidence theory. 1259-1278
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  Ronald R. Yager:
  On generalized Bonferroni mean operators for multi-criteria aggregation. 1279-1286
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  Yejun Xu, QingLi Da, LiHua Liu:
  Normalizing rank aggregation method for priority of a fuzzy preference relation and its effectiveness. 1287-1297
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  Enric Trillas, Itziar García-Honrado, Sergio Guadarrama, Eloy Renedo:
  Crisp sets as classes of discontinuous fuzzy sets. 1298-1305
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  José M. Peña:
  Faithfulness in chain graphs: The discrete case. 1306-1313
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  Damjan Skulj:
  Discrete time Markov chains with interval probabilities. 1314-1329

Volume 50, Number 9, November 2009

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  Eric Neufeld, Dan Wu:
  Special Track on Uncertain Reasoning of the 19th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Symposium (FLAIRS 2006). 1331-1332
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  Christoph Beierle, Gabriele Kern-Isberner:
  Formal similarities and differences among qualitative conditional semantics. 1333-1346
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  Kurt D. Krebsbach:
  Deliberation scheduling using GSMDPs in stochastic asynchronous domains. 1347-1359
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  David Sundgren, Mats Danielson, Love Ekenberg:
  Warp effects on calculating interval probabilities. 1360-1368
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  Catherine Howard, Markus Stumptner:
  Automated compilation of Object-Oriented Probabilistic Relational Models. 1369-1398
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  Volker Haarslev, Hsueh-Ieng Pai, Nematollaah Shiri:
  A formal framework for description logics with uncertainty. 1399-1415
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  Kevin Grant, Michael C. Horsch:
  Methods for constructing balanced elimination trees and other recursive decompositions. 1416-1424