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Reliable Uncertain Evidence Modeling in Bayesian Networks by Credal Networks
A reliable modeling of uncertain evidence in Bayesian networks based on a
set-valued quantification is proposed. Both soft and virtual evidences are
considered. We show that evidence propagation in this setup can be reduced to
standard updating in an augmented credal network, equivalent to a set of
consistent Bayesian networks. A characterization of the computational
complexity for this task is derived together with an efficient exact procedure
for a subclass of instances. In the case of multiple uncertain evidences over
the same variable, the proposed procedure can provide a set-valued version of
the geometric approach to opinion pooling.Comment: 19 page
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