"A Cost Effective Question-Asking Strategy for
Horn Clause Systems"
Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence,
1996, No. 17, Nos. 3-4, pp. 359-379.
Jinchang Wang and Evangelos Triantaphyllou
Abstract:
In many applications of knowledge based systems, the initial data
are insufficient to fulfill inference. In that case, knowledge
based systems ask users questions in order to acquire more
information. When and what to ask is determined by a question-
asking strategy. This paper deals with question-asking strategies
for a Horn system in which the response costs of the questions and
the probablistic estimates of the answers are given. We introduce
a question sequencing rule and enhance an efficient question-asking
strategy. Our computational experiments show that the proposed
question-asking strategy is very effective.
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