A Comparative Study of Possibilistic Conditional Independence and Lack of Interaction

International Journal of Approximate Reasoning

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 149-171

  Fonck, Pascale ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Belief updating; Conditional independence; Graphoids; Lack of interaction; Possibility theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010240239     PISSN: 0888613X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0888-613X(96)00095-3     Document Type: Article

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