• Complexity Results for Enhanced Qualitative Probabilistic Networks. Johan Kwisthout and Gerard Tel • Preprocessing the MAP Problem. Janneke H. Bolt and Linda C. van der Gaag • An Empirical Study of Efficiency and Accuracy of Probabilistic Graphical Models. Jens D. Nielsen and Manfred Jaeger • Sensitivity analysis of extreme inaccuracies in Gaussian Bayesian Networks. Miguel A. Gómez-Villegas,...

The invention and use of mobile commerce (m-commerce) technology have progressed tremendously in recent years. In small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), the decision of business-to-business (b2b) mcommerce is a multi-criterion decision analysis problem which involves both qualitative and quantitative factors, and its evaluation may be based on imprecise information or uncertain data. Further...

The binary decision diagram (BDD) and the metaproduct technologies have made possible to perform interactively exact qualitative and quantitative analysis of fault trees that could not previously be exactly analysed. This paper shows that these technologies can also be used to build an interactive tool to perform exact analysis of digraphs and of network connectivity problems. The paper also sh...

A straightforward criterion to determine the limp model validity for porous materials is addressed here. The limp model is an "equivalent fluid" model which gives a better description of the porous behavior than the well known "rigid frame" model. It is derived from the poroelastic Biot model assuming that the frame has no bulk stiffness. A criterion is proposed to identify the porous materials...

In this paper we develop a combinatorial method for the evaluation of yield of fault-tolerant systems-on-chip. The method assumes that defects are produced according to a model in which defects are lethal and affect given components of the system following a distribution common to all defects. The distribution of the number of defects is arbitrary. The method is based on the formulation of the ...

The knowledge of the process of the deterioration of structural resistance is crucial for existing bridge assessment. However, precisely modeling the process of loading also affects the evaluation. Indeed traffic loading is one of the main loads that a bridge is subjected to in its service time. This paper investigates the role of traffic loading on the time-dependent reliability of a given bri...

The highest cost technical activity in decision analysis, knowledge engineering and expert systems development is probabilistic assessment. Influence diagram (ID) technology has reduced assessment and improved decision models dramatically. However, once an ID has been assessed from the decision-maker (DM) and deterministic sensitivity analysis performed, a method to price the relevance arrows i...