• DocumentCode
    420296
  • Title

    Granular jointree probability propagation

  • Author

    Butz, C.J. ; Lingras, P.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. Sci., Regina Univ., Sask., Canada
  • Volume
    1
  • fYear
    2004
  • fDate
    27-30 June 2004
  • Firstpage
    69
  • Abstract
    Jointree computation continues to be central to the theory and practice of probabilistic expert systems. Recent research has incorporated granular structures to facilitate propagation in the jointree. In this paper, we propose a method for granular jointree probability propagation. Our method extends the previous works by allowing the granular levels to communicate with each other. It is explicitly demonstrated that our granular approach increases the amount of parallelism during probability propagation.
  • Keywords
    Markov processes; belief networks; expert systems; probabilistic logic; probability; trees (mathematics); Bayesian network; directed acyclic graph; granular jointree probability propagation; granular structures; hierarchical Markov network; jointree computation; parallel computation; probabilistic expert systems; Bayesian methods; Computer science; Concurrent computing; Expert systems; Inference algorithms; Markov random fields; Parallel processing; Probability distribution;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Fuzzy Information, 2004. Processing NAFIPS '04. IEEE Annual Meeting of the
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-8376-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/NAFIPS.2004.1336251
  • Filename
    1336251