Decision-Theoretic Troubleshooting

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 1995, Pages 49-57

  Heekerman, David I ^a   Breese, John S ^a   Rominelse, Koas ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COSTS; GRAPH THEORY; INFERENCE ENGINES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PLANNING; PROBABILITY; PROGRAM DEBUGGING; PROGRAM DIAGNOSTICS; REPAIR; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; DECISION THEORIC TROUBLESHOOTING; DECISION TREE; MULTIPLE FAULTS; SERVICE CALL ACTION; SINGLE FAULT CASE;

DECISION THEORY;

EID: 0029276284     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/203330.203341     Document Type: Article

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