Combining Experts’ Causal Judgments

Authors

  • Dalal Alrajeh Imperial College London
  • Hana Chockler King's College London
  • Joseph Halpern Cornell University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v32i1.12112

Keywords:

causality, intervention, combining causal judgments

Abstract

Consider a policymaker who wants to decide which intervention to perform in order to change a currently undesirable situation. The policymaker has at her disposal a team of experts, each with their own understanding of the causal dependencies between different factors contributing to the outcome. The policymaker has varying degrees of confidence in the experts’ opinions. She wants to combine their opinions in order to decide on the most effective intervention. We formally define the notion of an effective intervention, and then consider how experts’ causal judgments can be combined in order to determine the most effective intervention. We define a notion of two causal models being compatible, and show how compatible causal models can be combined. We then use it as the basis for combining experts causal judgments. We illustrate our approach on a number of real-life examples.

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Published

2018-04-26

How to Cite

Alrajeh, D., Chockler, H., & Halpern, J. (2018). Combining Experts’ Causal Judgments. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 32(1). https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v32i1.12112

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Section

AAAI Technical Track: Reasoning under Uncertainty