Title :
Non-deterministic distributions
Author_Institution :
Integration Sci. Center, Aerosp. Corp., Los Angeles, CA, USA
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/HICSS.1999.772635