Aggregation of Imprecise and Uncertain Information for Knowledge Discovery in Databases

Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, KDD 1998

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages

  McClean, Sally ^a   Scotney, Bryan ^a   Shapcott, Mary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS;

AGGREGATION OPERATOR; DATA ATTRIBUTES; IMPRECISE DATA; IMPRECISE INFORMATION; KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERIES IN DATABASE; PROBABILITY: DISTRIBUTIONS; PROPERTY; UNCERTAIN DATAS; UNCERTAIN INFORMATIONS; UNCERTAINTY;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 0007651223     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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