A Modification of the Halpern-Pearl Definition of Causality
Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Special Track on Knowledge Representation and Reasoning. Pages 3022-3032.
Abstract
The original Halpern-Pearl definition of causality was updated in the journal version of the paper to deal with some problems pointed out by Hopkins and Pearl. Here the definition is modified yet again, in a way that (a) leads to a simpler definition, (b) handles the problems pointed out by Hopkins and Pearl, and many others, (c) gives reasonable answers (that agree with those of the original and updated definition) in the standard problematic examples of causality, and (d) has lower complexity than either the original or updated definitions.
@inproceedings{ijcai2015p427,
title = {A Modification of the Halpern-Pearl Definition of Causality},
author = {Halpern, Joseph Y.},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth International Joint Conference on
Artificial Intelligence, {IJCAI-15}},
publisher = {International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence},
editor = {Qiang Yang and Michael Wooldridge},
pages = {3022--3032},
year = {2015},
month = {7},
note = {Special Track on Knowledge Representation and Reasoning},
url = {https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2015/427},
}
TY - CPAPER TI - A Modification of the Halpern-Pearl Definition of Causality AU - Halpern, Joseph Y. T2 - Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-15 PB - International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence PY - 2015 SP - 3022 EP - 3032 UR - https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2015/427 ER -Copied
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