Applications of experts' judgement to derive structure-biodegradation relationships

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 224-228

  Gamberger, Dragan ^a   Horvatić, Davor ^a   Sekušak, Sanja ^a   Sabljić, Aleksandar ^a,b  

^a RUDER BO KOVI INSTITUTE   (Croatia)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Evaluated biodegradation data; experts' judgement data; inductive machine learning method; molecular connectivity indices; QSAR modelling; rule generation system; structural rules for biodegradation; ultimate biodegradation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030479252     PISSN: 09441344     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02986965     Document Type: Review

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