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  Decision Network Semantics of Branching

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by K. Brown, P. Lucas, D. Fowler, Ken Brown, Peter Lucas, David Fowler
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Abstract:

Branching Constraint Satisfaction Problems (BCSPs) have been introduced to model dynamic resource allocation subject to constraints and uncertainty. We give BCSPs a formal probability semantics by showing how they can be mapped to a certain class of Bayesian decision networks. 1

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