Our influence can be seen in the improvements in information and analysis throughout the economic, social, biological and industrial sectors. Its industrial influence is evidenced in advanced ...

However, unlike influence diagrams which emphasize conditional independence among random variables, valuation-based systems emphasize factorizations of joint probability distributions. Also, whereas ...

For the given section the one diagram serves each and every load, but while the use of influence lines is generally referred to in structural engineering textbooks, the special technique required ...