Decision-Analytic Intelligent Systems: Automated Explanation and Knowledge Acquisition / Edition 1

by David A. Klein

Overview

This book presents a framework for building intelligent systems based on the mathematical decision models of Decision Analysis. The author provides new techniques for automated explanation and knowledge acquisition in formally sound systems that reason about complex tradeoffs in decisions. Also included are specifications for implementing these techniques in computer programs, along with demonstration applications in marketing, process control, and medicine.

Readers with an interest in artificial intelligence will gain a foundation for building formally justifiable, intelligible, modifiable systems for computing decisions involving multiple considerations, with applications across a variety of domains. Beyond decision models, the methodology of the work reported suggests a more general approach to employing formal mathematical models in transparent intelligent systems.

Decision-analysis experts will find a collection of methods for explaining decision-analytic advice to clients in intuitive terms, for simplifying parameter assessment, and for managing changing preferences over time. The book provides sufficient background material to promote understanding by readers who may be unfamiliar with artificial intelligence, with decision analysis, or with both fields, and such material is labeled to increase the well-versed reader's efficiency in skipping particular sections.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138876262
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/04/2019
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Contents: Preface. Introduction. Background, Motivation, and Problem Statement. IVA and VIRTUS: Overview and Applications. Interpretation. Explanation. Refinement. Implementation. Evaluation, Experience, and Observations. Summary, Contributions, and Future Work. Appendix: VIRTUS Report.