• DocumentCode
    339647
  • Title

    Non-deterministic distributions

  • Author

    Landauer, C.

  • Author_Institution
    Integration Sci. Center, Aerosp. Corp., Los Angeles, CA, USA
  • Volume
    Track6
  • fYear
    1999
  • fDate
    5-8 Jan. 1999
  • Abstract
    Most models of uncertainty change a precise value in some formal space to some other kind of value, function or a set, in another formal space. We define a new representation, called non-deterministic distributions, which allow us to integrate ignorance with probability models, and prove several theorems relating them to information theory and denotational semantics. The model integration problem is very difficult in general; we, like many others, have solved it only in very special cases. Our approach to integrating ignorance with probability, using non-deterministic distributions, shows a way to integrate ignorance with other uncertainty measures.
  • Keywords
    information theory; knowledge representation; probability; programming language semantics; uncertainty handling; denotational semantics; formal space; ignorance; information theory; knowledge representation; model integration; nondeterministic distributions; probability models; uncertainty measures; uncertainty models; Information theory; Measurement uncertainty;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Systems Sciences, 1999. HICSS-32. Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Maui, HI, USA
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7695-0001-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/HICSS.1999.772635
  • Filename
    772635