An Extended Rule-Based Inference for General Decision-Making Problems

Information Sciences

Volumn 102, Issue 1-4, 1997, Pages 111-131

  Chen, Liang Hsuan ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; FUZZY SETS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

DEMPSTER SHAFER THEORY; RULE BASED INFERENCE;

INFERENCE ENGINES;

EID: 0031281279     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-0255(96)00215-0     Document Type: Article

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