An information theoretic technique to design belief network based expert systems

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 17, Issue 1 SPEC. ISS., 1996, Pages 13-30

  Sarkar, Sumit ^a   Sriram, Ram S ^b   Joykutty, Shibu ^a   Murthy, Ishwar ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Belief networks; Expert systems; Information theory; Knowledge acquisition; Probabilistic reasoning

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION THEORY; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE; PROBABILITY;

BELIEF NETWORK BASED EXPERT SYSTEMS; PROBALISTIC REASONING; UNCERTAINTY;

EXPERT SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030127931     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0167-9236(95)00020-8     Document Type: Article

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