Diverse reasoning in automated model formulation

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 357-383

  Tseng, Shu Feng ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENGCHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Blackboard systems; Intelligent decision support systems; Model formulation

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; DECISION THEORY; EXPERT SYSTEMS;

AUTOMATED MODEL FORMULATION; DIVERSE REASONING;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031200198     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-9236(97)00013-4     Document Type: Article

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