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Some Results on the Automatic Construction of Bayesian Networks

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Operations Research ’91

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When dealing with systems that contain a great quantity of knowledge, that one of the main problems we need to solve is to determine how much and what sort of knowledge is necessary to perform a given task (e.g. an inference or a diagnosis). In other words, it is essential to know what information is relevant to the question we are interested in.

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Acid, S., de Campos, L.M., González, A., Molina, R., de la Blanca, N.P. (1992). Some Results on the Automatic Construction of Bayesian Networks. In: Gritzmann, P., Hettich, R., Horst, R., Sachs, E. (eds) Operations Research ’91. Physica-Verlag HD. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-48417-9_150

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