# Reasoning with Contextual Knowledge and Influence Diagrams

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.00571 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2007.00571/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 1 Jul 2020.

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [KERAIA: An Adaptive and Explainable Framework for Dynamic Knowledge Representation and Reasoning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2505.04313/) (2025)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Influence diagrams (IDs) are well-known formalisms extending Bayesian networks to model decision situations under uncertainty. Although they are convenient as a decision theoretic tool, their knowledge representation ability is limited in capturing other crucial notions such as logical consistency. We complement IDs with the light-weight description logic (DL) EL to overcome such limitations. We consider a setup where DL axioms hold in some contexts, yet the actual context is uncertain. The framework benefits from the convenience of using DL as a domain knowledge representation language and the modelling strength of IDs to deal with decisions over contexts in the presence of contextual uncertainty. We define related reasoning problems and study their computational complexity.