LSLNCF: A hybrid uncertain reasoning model based on probability

International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowldege-Based Systems

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 401-422

  Luo, Xudong ^a   Zhang, Chengqi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Certainty factors; Expert system; Necessity measure; Prior probability; Sufficiency measure; Ternary rule strengths; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010323374     PISSN: 02184885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S021848859800032X     Document Type: Article

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