In this task, you are given a part of an article. Your task is to generate headline (title) for this text. Preferred headlines are under fifteen words.
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Question: In many domains it is desirable to assess the pref­ erences of users in a qualitative rather than quan­ titative way. Such representations of qualitative preference orderings form an important compo­ nent of automated decision tools. We propose a graphical representation of preferences that re­ flects conditional dependence and independence of preference statements under a ceteris paribus (all else being equal) interpretation. Such a rep­ resentation is often compact and arguably natural. We describe several search algorithms for domi­ nance testing based on this representation; these algorithms are quite effective, especially in spe­ cific network topologies, such as chainand tree­ structured networks, as well as polytrees.

Answer: Reasoning With Conditional Ceteris Paribus Preference Statements


Question: Diagnosis of liver infection at preliminary stage is important for better treatment. In today’s scenario devices like sensors are used for detection of infections. Accurate classification techniques are required for automatic identification of disease samples. In this context, this study utilizes data mining approaches for classification of liver patients from healthy individuals. Four algorithms (Naïve Bayes, Bagging, Random forest and SVM) were implemented for classification using R platform. Further to improve the accuracy of classification a hybrid NeuroSVM model was developed using SVM and feed-forward artificial neural network (ANN). The hybrid model was tested for its performance using statistical parameters like root mean square error (RMSE) and mean absolute percentage error (MAPE). The model resulted in a prediction accuracy of 98.83%. The results suggested that development of hybrid model improved the accuracy of prediction. To serve the medicinal community for prediction of liver disease among patients, a graphical user interface (GUI) has been developed using R. The GUI is deployed as a package in local repository of R platform for users to perform prediction.

Answer: NeuroSVM: A Graphical User Interface for Identification of Liver Patients


Question: Previous studies have demonstrated that encoding a Bayesian network into a SAT formula and then performing weighted model counting using a backtracking search algorithm can be an effective method for exact inference. In this paper, we present techniques for improving this approach for Bayesian networks with noisy-OR and noisy-MAX relations— two relations that are widely used in practice as they can dramatically reduce the number of probabilities one needs to specify. In particular, we present two SAT encodings for noisy-OR and two encodings for noisy-MAX that exploit the structure or semantics of the relations to improve both time and space efficiency, and we prove the correctness of the encodings. We experimentally evaluated our techniques on large-scale real and randomly generated Bayesian networks. On these benchmarks, our techniques gave speedups of up to two orders of magnitude over the best previous approaches for networks with noisyOR/MAX relations and scaled up to larger networks. As well, our techniques extend the weighted model counting approach for exact inference to networks that were previously intractable for the approach.

Answer:
Exploiting Structure in Weighted Model Counting Approaches to Probabilistic Inference