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37. Influence Diagrams

By R.A. Howard and J.E. Matheson

Abstract: The subject of this paper is a new form of description, the influence diagram, that is at once both a formal description of the problem that can be treated by computers and a representation easily understood by people in all walks of life and degrees of technical proficiency. It thus forms a bridge between qualitative description and quantitative specification.

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Keywords: framing framestruc, framing tool framtool, infldiag