Causal Explanation with Background Knowledge
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This paper presents a new sequential algorithm to answer the question about the existence of a causal explanation for a set of independence statements (a dependency model), which is consistent with a given set of background knowledge. Emphasis is placed on generality, efficiency and ease of parallelization of the algorithm. From this sequential algorithm, an efficient, scalable, and easy to implement parallel algorithm with very little interprocessor communication is derived.
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تاریخ انتشار 2003