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The Markov Assumption: Formalization and Impact

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Proceedings of the Twenty-Third International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Pages 782-787.

Abstract

We provide both a semantic interpretation and logical (inferential) characterization of the Markov principle that underlies the main action theories in AI. This principle will be shown to constitute a nonmonotonic assumption that justifies the actual restrictions on action descriptions in these theories, as well as constraints on allowable queries. It will be shown also that the well-known regression principle is a consequence of the Markov assumption, and it is valid also for non-deterministic domains.

Alexander Bochman. 2013. The Markov Assumption: Formalization and Impact. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Third International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-13. IJCAI, 782–787. https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2013/122
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