[Talks@IDSIA] Using Binary Trees For Evaluating Influence Diagrams (17 Dec, 11.50am, room 223)

Speaker: Rafael Cabañas (University of Granada) When: Wednesday, December 17th, 2014. Time: 11.50am Duration: ~30mins Where: room 223 (just in front of the vending machines) Abstract: Traditionally, potentials involved in Influence Diagrams have been represented using tables. Binary Trees are an alternative representation which allows representing context-specific independencies that are finer-grained compared to those encoded using other representations. This enhanced capability can be used to improve the efficiency of the inference algorithms used for Influence Diagrams. Another advantage is that this kind of structure can easily represent constraints in asymmetric decision problems. -- _________________________________ Alessandro Antonucci IDSIA Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence Via Cantonale (Galleria 2) CH-6928, Manno-Lugano, CH mail: alessandro(a)idsia.ch skype: alessandro.antonucci tel: +41 916108515 web: www.idsia.ch/~alessandro _________________________________