Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty

Invited Papers.- Qualitative Decision Rules under Uncertainty.- Applications of Latent Class Analysis in Social Science Research.- Foundations of Uncertainty Concepts.- Transformations from Imprecise to Precise Probabilities.- A Representation Theorem and Applications.- On Modal Probability and Belief.- Bayesian Networks.- A Multi-layered Bayesian Network Model for Structured Document Retrieval.- Using Kappas as Indicators of Strength in Qualitative Probabilistic Networks.- Qualitative Bayesian Networks with Logical Constraints.- Introducing Situational Influences in QPNs.- Classification of Aerial Missions Using Hidden Markov Models.- Algorithms for Uncertainty Inference.- Dynamic Importance Sampling Computation in Bayesian Networks.- Morphing the Hugin and Shenoy-Shafer Architectures.- Learning.- Characterization of Inclusion Neighbourhood in Terms of the Essential Graph: Upper Neighbours.- Approximating Conditional MTE Distributions by Means of Mixed Trees.- Effective Dimensions of Partially Observed Polytrees.- Decision Graphs.- Applying Numerical Trees to Evaluate Asymmetric Decision Problems.- Mixed Influence Diagrams.- Decision Making Based on Sampled Disease Occurrence in Animal Herds.- Decision Network Semantics of Branching Constraint Satisfaction Problems.- Belief Functions.- Web of Trust: Applying Probabilistic Argumentation to Public-Key Cryptography.- A Comparison of Methods for Transforming Belief Function Models to Probability Models.- Fuzzy Matching and Evidential Reasoning.- Modeling Positive and Negative Pieces of Evidence in Uncertainty.- Directed Evidential Networks with Conditional Belief Functions.- Computational-Workload Based Binarization and Partition of Qualitative Markov Trees for Belief Combination.- Risk Assessment in Drinking Water Production Using Belief Functions.- Algebraic Structures Related to the Consensus Operator for Combining of Beliefs.- Fuzzy Sets.- Inclusion Measures in Intuitionistic Fuzzy Set Theory.- A Random Set Model