Title
A Logical Approach to Context-Specific Independence.
Abstract
Bayesian networks constitute a qualitative representation for conditional independence CI properties of a probability distribution. It is known that every CI statement implied by the topology of a Bayesian network G is witnessed over G under a graph-theoretic criterion called d-separation. Alternatively, all such implied CI statements have been shown to be derivable using the so-called semi-graphoid axioms. In this article we consider Labeled Directed Acyclic Graphs LDAG the purpose of which is to graphically model situations exhibiting context-specific independence CSI. We define an analogue of dependence logic suitable to express context-specific independence and study its basic properties. We also consider the problem of finding inference rules for deriving non-local CSI and CI statements that logically follow from the structure of a LDAG but are not explicitly encoded by it.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1007/978-3-662-52921-8_11
WoLLIC
Field
DocType
Volume
Discrete mathematics,Logical approach,Conditional independence,Computer science,Axiom,Algorithm,Directed acyclic graph,Probability distribution,Dependence logic,Bayesian network,Rule of inference
Conference
9803
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0302-9743
3
0.39
References 
Authors
18
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
jukka corander130232.66
Antti Hyttinen29712.55
Juha Kontinen317624.67
Pensar, Johan4194.76
Jouko Väänänen513120.60