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Subject: New Article, Decision-Theoretic Foundations for Causal ...
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JAIR is pleased to announce the publication of the following article:

Heckerman, D. and Shachter, R. (1995)
  "Decision-Theoretic Foundations for Causal Reasoning", 
   Volume 3, pages 405-430.
   PostScript: volume3/heckerman95a.ps (327K)
	       compressed, volume3/heckerman95a.ps.Z (136K)


   Abstract: We present a definition of cause and effect in terms of
   decision-theoretic primitives and thereby provide a principled
   foundation for causal reasoning.  Our definition departs from the
   traditional view of causation in that causal assertions may vary with
   the set of decisions available.  We argue that this approach provides
   added clarity to the notion of cause.  Also in this paper, we examine
   the encoding of causal relationships in directed acyclic graphs.  We
   describe a special class of influence diagrams, those in canonical
   form, and show its relationship to Pearl's representation of cause and
   effect.  Finally, we show how canonical form facilitates
   counterfactual reasoning.

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