Here are some related papers, some in UAI proceedings (Matzkevich &
Abramson UAI-1992 and UAI-1993; Pennock and Wellman UAI-1999). Good luck!
Dave
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@phdthesis{Bonduelle87,
title="Aggregating expert opinions by resolving sources of disagreement",
author="Yann Bonduelle",
school="Stanford University",
year=1987}
@inproceedings{Matzkevich92,
author="Izhar Matzkevich and Bruce Abramson",
title="The topological fusion of {B}ayes nets",
booktitle="Eighth Conference on
Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence",
pages="152--158",
year=1992}
@inproceedings{Matzkevich93,
author="Izhar Matzkevich and Bruce Abramson",
title="Some complexity considerations in the combination of belief
networks",
booktitle="Ninth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence",
pages="152--158",
year=1993}
@article{Ng94,
author="Ng, Keung-{C}hi and Abramson, Bruce",
title="Probabilistic Multi-Knowledge-Base Systems",
journal="Applied Intelligence",
volume=4,
number=2,
pages="219--236",
year=1994}
@inproceedings{Pennock99,
author="David M. Pennock and Michael P. Wellman",
title="Graphical Representations of Consensus Belief",
booktitle="Fifteenth Conference on
Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI--99)",
month=jul,
pages="531--540",
year=1999}
@Article{Xiang93,
author = "Y. Xiang and D. Poole and M. P. Beddoes",
title = "Multiply sectioned {B}ayesian networks and junction
forests for large knowledge based systems",
journal = "Comput. Intell.",
year = 1993,
volume = 9,
pages = "171--220"}
@Article{Xiang96,
author = "Y. Xiang",
title = "A probabilistic framework for cooperative
multi-agent distributed interpretation and
optimization of communication",
journal = "Artificial Intelligence",
year = 1996,
volume = 87,
number = "1--2",
OPTmonth = nov,
pages = "295--342"}
@article{Xiang98,
author = "Y. Xiang",
title = "Verification of {DAG} structures in cooperative belief
network-based multiagent systems",
journal = "Networks",
year = 1998,
volume = 31,
pages = "183--191"}
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Sergio Storari wrote:
> Hi I'm beginning to work on multi-agent system for distributed
> diagnosis. To this purpose I'm investigating on bayesian networks and
> how to merge the reasoning of different agents each one enclosing its
> own bayesian network and collecting documentation about works
> regarding these methodologies.
>
> I kindly ask to anyone who knows relevant literature about this subject to
> send me references.
> Thank you in advance.
> Best Regards
> Sergio Storari
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