Weapon I: Locality
Our language exploits locality:
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All information is presented in terms of local influences
Locality also allows divide & conquer inference
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In Bayesian networks
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In constraint satisfaction
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In logical reasoning
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[Pearl; Lauritzen & Spiegelhalter; Jensen et al., Dechter; Amir; …]