Symbolic propagation and sensitivity analysis in Gaussian Bayesian networks with application to damage assessment

Artificial Intelligence in Engineering

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 173-181

  Castillo, E ^a   Gutierrez J M ^a   Hadi, A S ^a   Solares, C ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Expert systems; Multivariate normal distribution; Symbolic computations

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CONCRETE BUILDINGS; FRACTURE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

SYMBOLIC COMPUTATIONS;

EXPERT SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031126237     PISSN: 09541810     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0954-1810(96)00030-1     Document Type: Article

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