<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD JATS (Z39.96) Journal Publishing DTD v1.0 20120330//EN" "JATS-journalpublishing1.dtd">
<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" article-type="research-article">
	<front>
		<journal-meta>
			<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">INFORMATICA</journal-id>
			<journal-title-group>
				<journal-title>Informatica</journal-title>
			</journal-title-group>
			<issn pub-type="epub">0868-4952</issn>
			<issn pub-type="ppub">0868-4952</issn>
			<publisher>
				<publisher-name>VU</publisher-name>
			</publisher>
		</journal-meta>
		<article-meta>
			<article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">INF10404</article-id>
			<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.3233/INF-1999-10404</article-id>
			<article-categories>
				<subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
					<subject>Research article</subject>
				</subj-group>
			</article-categories>
			<title-group>
				<article-title>Agent Belief: Presentation, Propagation, and Optimization</article-title>
			</title-group>
			<contrib-group>
				<contrib contrib-type="Author">
					<name>
						<surname>Noncheva</surname>
						<given-names>Veska</given-names>
					</name>
					<email xlink:href="mailto:nonchev@plovdiv.techno-link.com">nonchev@plovdiv.techno-link.com</email>
					<email xlink:href="mailto:wesnon@ulcc.uni-plovdiv.bg">wesnon@ulcc.uni-plovdiv.bg</email>
					<xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000"/>
				</contrib>
				<aff id="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000">Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, University of Plovdiv, 24 Tsar Assen St., 4000 Plovdiv, Bulgaria</aff>
			</contrib-group>
			<pub-date pub-type="epub">
				<day>01</day>
				<month>01</month>
				<year>1999</year>
			</pub-date>
			<volume>10</volume>
			<issue>4</issue>
			<fpage>403</fpage>
			<lpage>426</lpage>
			<history>
				<date date-type="received">
					<day>01</day>
					<month>11</month>
					<year>1999</year>
				</date>
			</history>
			<abstract>
				<p>The aim of the article is to show a stochastic approach for both modelling and optimizing the statistical agent belief in a probability model.</p><p>Two networks are defined: a decision network <formula>$\mathfrak{D}$</formula> of the agent belief state and a utility network <formula>$\mathfrak{U}$</formula>, presenting the utility structure of the agent belief problem.</p><p>The agent belief is presented via the following three items (<formula>$\mathfrak{B},\mathfrak{D},\mathfrak{U}$</formula>), where <formula>$\mathfrak{B}$</formula> is a Bayesian network, presenting the probability structure of the agent belief problem.</p><p>Two propagation algorithms in <formula>$\mathfrak{D}$</formula> and in <formula>$\mathfrak{U}$</formula> are also presented.</p>
			</abstract>
			<kwd-group>
				<label>Keywords</label>
				<kwd>agent belief</kwd>
				<kwd>decision network</kwd>
				<kwd>utility network</kwd>
			</kwd-group>
		</article-meta>
	</front>
</article>