Is higher-order uncertainty needed?

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

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 294-302

  Neapolitan, Richard E ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CALCULATIONS; DECISION MAKING; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILISTIC LOGICS; PROBABILITY; SET THEORY;

BELIEF; HIGHER ORDER UNCERTAINTY; RATIO; RELATIVE FREQUENCY;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 0030151283     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3468.487955     Document Type: Article

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