[UAI] AAAI '05/IAAI '05

2005-05-15 Thread Joseph Halpern
I was asked to forward this reminder this reminder that AAAI early registration ends this Friday (May 13). -- Joe -- As part of the upcoming Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-05), AAAI is pleased to announce the first AI Sister Conference Highlights Prog

Re: [UAI] Is it a paradox?

2005-07-15 Thread Joseph Halpern
> Consider the following line of reasoning. Let p be the proposition > "Ronald was born in New York." From p, we can infer q: Ronald was born > in the United States. From q, we can infer r: It is possible that > Ronald was born in New Jersey. On the other hand, from p we can infer > s: It is not p

[UAI] Games and Economic Behavior

2005-12-02 Thread Joseph Halpern
following individuals have accepted our invitation to join the editorial board: Joseph Halpern, Cornell University Michael Kearns, University of Pennsylvania Noam Nisan, Hebrew University Christos Papadimitriou , University of California at Berkeley Moshe Tennenholtz, Technion - Israel Institute of

Re: [UAI] Definition of Causality

2006-04-28 Thread Joseph Halpern
Hi Lotfi, As I think I may have mentioned the last time said before, I believe that the model of actual causality that Judea Pearl and I defined, extended to deal with degree of responsibility, deals with these issues, at least to some extent. The original version of the paper appeared in UAI,

[UAI] causality

2006-07-15 Thread Joseph Halpern
I responded privately to Lotfi regarding his causality questions. He asked me to post my response to the mailing list. So here is a somewhat edited version of my response to Lotfi: Hi Lotfi, All your problems can be handled by our approach. Howver, the answer depends on the mode

Re: [UAI] causality

2006-07-25 Thread Joseph Halpern
Hi Lotfi, It's certainly true that our definition of causality depnds on the causal structure. In the same way, Tarski's definition of truth depends on having a relational model. It is also true that there are times when it might be hard to construct an appropriate structural model, because we d

Re: [UAI] Structural models are necessary but may be impossible to validate

2006-07-25 Thread Joseph Halpern
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