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Figure 1: The table for utility node Utility with parents Drill and Oil. |
The table of a utility node is found in the Tables Pane when the node is selected.
The utility table specifies a utility function. For each configuration of the states of the parents, which can be discrete chance and decision nodes, the utility table has an entry specifying a utility value of this configuration. Figure 1 shows the table for the utility node Utility with the discrete chance node Oil and the discrete decision node Drill as parents.
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Figure 1: The table for utility node Utility with parents Drill and Oil. |
Each numeric value in the utility table is the utility of the parent nodes being in the states found in the top of the actual column.
You can change a specific numeric value by selecting it with the mouse cursor and typing in a new value from the keyboard.
