From Statistical Knowledge Bases to Degrees of Belief: An Overview
Summary: Proposes the random-worlds method to derive degrees of belief from rich knowledge bases (individuals, statistics, correlations, rules) by treating all possible worlds as equally likely (principle of indifference). Unifies qualitative defaults and quantitative probabilities, yielding direct-inference properties (specificity, inheritance, independence) and handling reasoning tasks beyond many non-deductive systems, with implications for database applications. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 627 | Management of Probabilistic Data: Foundations and Challenges | 2007 | PODS | 0.00018959005 |
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 74 | Efficient Query Evaluation on Probabilistic Databases | 2004 | VLDB | 0.00057857292 |
| 450 | The Theory Of Probabilistic Databases | 1987 | VLDB | 0.00022822073 |
| 2,268 | OLAP Over Uncertain and Imprecise Data | 2005 | VLDB | 9.1497575e-05 |
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