Open AccessThe Real Estate Agent—Modeling Users By Uncertain Reasoning
Author(s) -
Morik Katherina,
Rollinger ClausRainer
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
ai magazine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.597
H-Index - 79
eISSN - 2371-9621
pISSN - 0738-4602
DOI - 10.1609/aimag.v6i2.479
Subject(s) - inference , flexibility (engineering) , computer science , stereotype (uml) , proposition , artificial intelligence , real estate , space (punctuation) , human–computer interaction , machine learning , software engineering , epistemology , mathematics , philosophy , statistics , political science , law , operating system
Two topics are treated here First, we present a user model patterned after the stereotype approach (Rich, 1979) This model surpasses Rich's model with respect to its greater flexibility in the construction of user profiles, and its treatment of positive and negative arguments. Second, we present an inference machine This machine treats uncertain knowledge in the form of evidence for and against the accuracy of a proposition. Truth values are replaced by the concept of a two‐dimensional evidence space We discuss the consequences of the concept, particularly with regard to verification. The connection between these two topics is established by implementation of the user model on the inference machine