Reasoning with Cause and Effect

Authors

  • Judea Pearl

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1609/aimag.v23i1.1612

Abstract

This article is an edited transcript of a lecture given at IJCAI-99, Stockholm, Sweden, on 4 August 1999. The article summarizes concepts, principles, and tools that were found useful in applications involving causal modeling. The principles are based on structural-model semantics in which functional (or counterfactual) relationships representing autonomous physical processes are the fundamental building blocks. The article presents the conceptual basis of this semantics, illustrates its application in simple problems, and discusses its ramifications to computational and cognitive problems concerning causation.

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Published

2002-03-15

How to Cite

Pearl, J. (2002). Reasoning with Cause and Effect. AI Magazine, 23(1), 95. https://doi.org/10.1609/aimag.v23i1.1612

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