Representing partial ignorance

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

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 361-377

  Dubois, Didier ^a,b   Prade, Henri ^b   Smets, Philippe ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b IRIT   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DECISION THEORY; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEASUREMENT THEORY; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

BAYESIAN PROBABILITY; BELIEF REVISION; HIGHER ORDER UNCERTAINTY;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 0030151787     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3468.487961     Document Type: Article

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