Agent Belief: Presentation, Propagation, and Optimization
Volume 10, Issue 4 (1999), pp. 403–426
Pub. online: 1 January 1999
Type: Research Article
Received
1 November 1999
1 November 1999
Published
1 January 1999
1 January 1999
Abstract
The aim of the article is to show a stochastic approach for both modelling and optimizing the statistical agent belief in a probability model.
Two networks are defined: a decision network $\mathfrak{D}$ of the agent belief state and a utility network $\mathfrak{U}$, presenting the utility structure of the agent belief problem.
The agent belief is presented via the following three items ($\mathfrak{B},\mathfrak{D},\mathfrak{U}$), where $\mathfrak{B}$ is a Bayesian network, presenting the probability structure of the agent belief problem.
Two propagation algorithms in $\mathfrak{D}$ and in $\mathfrak{U}$ are also presented.