Soft Computing in Interdisciplinary Sciences

Soft Computing in Interdisciplinary Sciences
Author: S. Chakraverty
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2021-11-01
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9811647135

This book meets the present and future needs for the interaction between various science and technology/engineering areas on the one hand and different branches of soft computing on the other. Soft computing is the recent development about the computing methods which include fuzzy set theory/logic, evolutionary computation (EC), probabilistic reasoning, artificial neural networks, machine learning, expert systems, etc. Soft computing refers to a partnership of computational techniques in computer science, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and some other engineering disciplines, which attempt to study, model, and analyze complex problems from different interdisciplinary problems. This, as opposed to traditional computing, deals with approximate models and gives solutions to complex real-life problems. Unlike hard computing, soft computing is tolerant of imprecision, uncertainty, partial truth, and approximations. Interdisciplinary sciences include various challenging problems of science and engineering. Recent developments in soft computing are the bridge to handle different interdisciplinary science and engineering problems. In recent years, the correspondingly increased dialog between these disciplines has led to this new book. This is done, firstly, by encouraging the ways that soft computing may be applied in traditional areas, as well as point towards new and innovative areas of applications and secondly, by encouraging other scientific disciplines to engage in a dialog with the above computation algorithms outlining their problems to both access new methods as well as to suggest innovative developments within itself.

Causality in the Sciences

Causality in the Sciences
Author: Phyllis McKay Illari
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 953
Release: 2011-03-17
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0199574138

Why do ideas of how mechanisms relate to causality and probability differ so much across the sciences? Can progress in understanding the tools of causal inference in some sciences lead to progress in others? This book tackles these questions and others concerning the use of causality in the sciences.

Actual Causality

Actual Causality
Author: Joseph Y. Halpern
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2016-08-12
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0262035022

Explores actual causality, and such related notions as degree of responsibility, degree of blame, and causal explanation. The goal is to arrive at a definition of causality that matches our natural language usage and is helpful, for example, to a jury deciding a legal case, a programmer looking for the line of code that cause some software to fail, or an economist trying to determine whether austerity caused a subsequent depression.

An Introduction to Causal Inference

An Introduction to Causal Inference
Author: Judea Pearl
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Causation
ISBN: 9781507894293

This paper summarizes recent advances in causal inference and underscores the paradigmatic shifts that must be undertaken in moving from traditional statistical analysis to causal analysis of multivariate data. Special emphasis is placed on the assumptions that underly all causal inferences, the languages used in formulating those assumptions, the conditional nature of all causal and counterfactual claims, and the methods that have been developed for the assessment of such claims. These advances are illustrated using a general theory of causation based on the Structural Causal Model (SCM) described in Pearl (2000a), which subsumes and unifies other approaches to causation, and provides a coherent mathematical foundation for the analysis of causes and counterfactuals. In particular, the paper surveys the development of mathematical tools for inferring (from a combination of data and assumptions) answers to three types of causal queries: (1) queries about the effects of potential interventions, (also called "causal effects" or "policy evaluation") (2) queries about probabilities of counterfactuals, (including assessment of "regret," "attribution" or "causes of effects") and (3) queries about direct and indirect effects (also known as "mediation"). Finally, the paper defines the formal and conceptual relationships between the structural and potential-outcome frameworks and presents tools for a symbiotic analysis that uses the strong features of both. The tools are demonstrated in the analyses of mediation, causes of effects, and probabilities of causation. -- p. 1.

Causality

Causality
Author: Judea Pearl
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 487
Release: 2009-09-14
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 052189560X

Causality offers the first comprehensive coverage of causal analysis in many sciences, including recent advances using graphical methods. Pearl presents a unified account of the probabilistic, manipulative, counterfactual and structural approaches to causation, and devises simple mathematical tools for analyzing the relationships between causal connections, statistical associations, actions and observations. The book will open the way for including causal analysis in the standard curriculum of statistics, artificial intelligence ...

Source-field Causality and Its Application Classical Radiation Theory

Source-field Causality and Its Application Classical Radiation Theory
Author: E. J. Post
Publisher:
Total Pages: 38
Release: 1966
Genre: Differential equations
ISBN:

A mathematical procedure is given for singling out the causal solutions from the general set of solutions of self-adjoint differential equations. It consists in splitting the self-adjoint equation into a pair of adjoint equations whose solutions are purely causal and purely anti-causal, respectively. A subsequent merging of the equations then generates in full detail, including singularities, the causal and anti-causal :olutions of the original self -adjoint equation. As an important example, it is shown that the d'Alembertian with point source has a legitimate causal solution involving both retarded and advanced potentials at the source point itself, while at all other points, the retarded potential alone satisfies causality. Within the context of the formalism some recent attempts at modifying classical radiation theory can now be reassessed and more clearly categorized. In particular, the Dirac and Wheeler-Feynman approaches are examined in this light.

Causal Inference

Causal Inference
Author: Miquel A. Hernan
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2019-07-07
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9781420076165

The application of causal inference methods is growing exponentially in fields that deal with observational data. Written by pioneers in the field, this practical book presents an authoritative yet accessible overview of the methods and applications of causal inference. With a wide range of detailed, worked examples using real epidemiologic data as well as software for replicating the analyses, the text provides a thorough introduction to the basics of the theory for non-time-varying treatments and the generalization to complex longitudinal data.

The Book of Why

The Book of Why
Author: Judea Pearl
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2018-05-15
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0465097618

A Turing Award-winning computer scientist and statistician shows how understanding causality has revolutionized science and will revolutionize artificial intelligence "Correlation is not causation." This mantra, chanted by scientists for more than a century, has led to a virtual prohibition on causal talk. Today, that taboo is dead. The causal revolution, instigated by Judea Pearl and his colleagues, has cut through a century of confusion and established causality -- the study of cause and effect -- on a firm scientific basis. His work explains how we can know easy things, like whether it was rain or a sprinkler that made a sidewalk wet; and how to answer hard questions, like whether a drug cured an illness. Pearl's work enables us to know not just whether one thing causes another: it lets us explore the world that is and the worlds that could have been. It shows us the essence of human thought and key to artificial intelligence. Anyone who wants to understand either needs The Book of Why.

Causality and Its Application

Causality and Its Application
Author: Jaysankar Lal Shaw
Publisher:
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2005
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

Causality and Its Application: Samkhya, Bauddha and Nyaya is not only a commentry on the views of classical Indian philosophers, but also contains explanations of concepts which are indispensable for understanding metaphysics, epistemology and ethics, among many other things. This book deals with a range of questions such as whether the material cause contains the effect in its subtle form, whether causality can be defined in terms of efficacy, whether causal conditions are related to each other and whether they can be classified into types. It also explains the relation between the concepts of event, action, moment and causality .

Elements of Causal Inference

Elements of Causal Inference
Author: Jonas Peters
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2017-11-29
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0262037319

A concise and self-contained introduction to causal inference, increasingly important in data science and machine learning. The mathematization of causality is a relatively recent development, and has become increasingly important in data science and machine learning. This book offers a self-contained and concise introduction to causal models and how to learn them from data. After explaining the need for causal models and discussing some of the principles underlying causal inference, the book teaches readers how to use causal models: how to compute intervention distributions, how to infer causal models from observational and interventional data, and how causal ideas could be exploited for classical machine learning problems. All of these topics are discussed first in terms of two variables and then in the more general multivariate case. The bivariate case turns out to be a particularly hard problem for causal learning because there are no conditional independences as used by classical methods for solving multivariate cases. The authors consider analyzing statistical asymmetries between cause and effect to be highly instructive, and they report on their decade of intensive research into this problem. The book is accessible to readers with a background in machine learning or statistics, and can be used in graduate courses or as a reference for researchers. The text includes code snippets that can be copied and pasted, exercises, and an appendix with a summary of the most important technical concepts.