Uncertainty management in expert systems using fuzzy Petri nets

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 96-105

  Konar, Amit ^b   Mandal, Ajit K ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Belief propagation; Belief revision; Expert systems; Fuzzy belief; Fuzzy Petri nets; Limitcycles; Nonmonotonic reasoning; Reachability; Stability; Uncertainty management

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FUZZY SETS; PETRI NETS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

BELIEF PROPAGATION; BELIEF REVISION; NONMONOTONIC REASONING; UNCERTAINTY MANAGEMENT;

EXPERT SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030086259     PISSN: 10414347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/69.485639     Document Type: Article

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