Reinforcing the Object-Oriented Aspect of Probabilistic Relational Models

Lionel Torti (1) , Pierre-Henri Wuillemin (1) , Christophe Gonzales (1)

1 DECISION

Representing uncertainty in knowledge is a common issue in Artificial Intelligence. Bayesian Networks have been one of the main models used in this field of research. The simplicity of their specification is one of the reason for their success, both in industrial and in theoretical domains. The widespread use of Bayesian Networks brings new challenges in the design and use of large- scale systems, where this very simplicity causes a lack of expressiveness and scalability. To fill this gap, an increasing number of languages emerged as extensions of Bayesian Networks with many approaches: first-order logic, object-oriented, entity-relation, and so on. In this paper we focus on Probabilistic Relational Models, an object-oriented extension. However, Probabilistic Relational Models do not fully exploit the object-oriented paradigm, in particular they lack class inheritance. Using Object-Oriented Bayesian Networks as a basis, we propose to lightly extend PRMs framework resulting in stronger object-oriented aspects in probabilistic models.

Domaines: Intelligence artificielle [cs.AI]

Lionel Torti, Pierre-Henri Wuillemin, Christophe Gonzales. Reinforcing the Object-Oriented Aspect of Probabilistic Relational Models. PGM 2010 - The Fifth European Workshop on Probabilistic Graphical Models, Sep 2010, Helsinki, Finland. pp.273-280. ⟨hal-00627823⟩