{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"Reasoning About Control: The Investigation of an Evidential Approach","authors":[{"name":"Leonard P. Wesley","slug":"leonard-p-wesley","given":"Leonard P.","family":"Wesley","affiliation":""}],"abstract":"The cor nplexit .y o f the domains in which expert systems are exfWctrd to op<>rate re quires that they be capable of \"reasoning\" about t IH\"ir :l<·tions. It ha s been argued th:-.t expert systems must reason fr n nr •' ridrnr ia/ info rmation - i.e., uncertain, incomplete, and occasionallv inarcuratc inf o rmation !LOW82aJ. As a consequence , a model for re' \" '' ning a bo ut co ntr o l mu st d eal with several problems - being able to o rgani ze \"c ontrol-related \" evidential information that is generically dis ti!lrt and ·fr o m dis parate so urces , to overcome minor errors in the rv id •· nti:1l inform at ion need ed to reach a deci sion , and to explain the ar t inn s taken by the system. These are a few of some formidable control i\"' ue s and problems that remain largely un so lved JBAH82J . Thus , w<· re port 0 11 a n investigation into how t.hese iss ues and problems can be :1d dr e,;se cl when th e problem of reasoning about system control is vi<·w ed as an <·vid c ntial process.","doi":null,"url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1983/48","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1983/0048.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1983/48.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1983/bibtex/48","volume":{"slug":"1983","title":"Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 1983","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1983/","year":1983,"location":"Karlsruhe, West Germany","dates":"","editors":"Alan Bundy","isbn":"","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence","doi_prefix":""},"section":"Expert Systems","track":"Expert Systems","number":48,"pages":{"first":203,"last":205},"keywords":[],"videos":[],"references":[],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}