Combining ambiguous evidence with respect to ambiguous a priori knowledge, I: Boolean logic

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans.

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 27-41

  Mahler, Ronald P S ^a  

^a Loral Corp St Anthony MN USA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; COMPUTATION THEORY; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

A PRIORI KNOWLEDGE; CONDITIONED DEMPSTER-SHAFER THEORY; NONBAYESIAN EVIDENCE;

PROBABILITY;

EID: 0029735305     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3468.477858     Document Type: Article

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