Five useful properties of probabilistic knowledge representations from the point of view of intelligent systems

Fundamenta Informaticae

Volumn 30, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 241-254

  Druzdzel, Marek J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILISTIC LOGICS; PROBABILITY; USER INTERFACES;

INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; PROBABILISTIC KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATIONS;

KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION;

EID: 0031169684     PISSN: 01692968     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/fi-1997-303402     Document Type: Review

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