ECAI 2004 Conference Paper

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Uncertain Linear Constraints

Nic Wilson

Linear constraints occur naturally in many reasoning problems and the information that they represent is often uncertain. There is a difficulty in applying many AI uncertainty formalisms to this situation, as their representation of the underlying logic, either as a mutually exclusive and exhaustive set of possibilities, or as a propositional or a predicate logic, is inappropriate (or at least unhelpful). To overcome this, we express reasoning with linear constraints as a logic, and develop the formalisms based on this different underlying logic. We focus in particular on a possibilistic logic representation of uncertain linear constraints, and a Dempster-Shafer representation.

Keywords: Reasoning under Uncertainty, Spatial Reasoning, Temporal Reasoning, Nonmonotonic Reasoning

Citation: Nic Wilson: Uncertain Linear Constraints. In R.López de Mántaras and L.Saitta (eds.): ECAI2004, Proceedings of the 16th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IOS Press, Amsterdam, 2004, pp.231-235.


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ECAI-2004 is organised by the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI) and hosted by the Universitat Politècnica de València on behalf of Asociación Española de Inteligencia Artificial (AEPIA) and Associació Catalana d'Intel-ligència Artificial (ACIA).