Elicitation, Assessment, and Pooling of Expert Judgments Using Possibility Theory

IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1995, Pages 313-335

  Kalfsbeek, Henk W ^c   Dubois, Didier ^b  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^c JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES; RELIABILITY;

FUZZY CARDINALITY INDEX; POSSIBILITY THEORY;

EXPERT SYSTEMS;

EID: 0029359014     PISSN: 10636706     EISSN: 19410034     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/91.413236     Document Type: Article

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