Application of the transferable belief model to diagnostic problems

International Journal of Intelligent Systems

Volumn 13, Issue 2-3, 1998, Pages 127-157

  Smets, Philippe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; THEOREM PROVING;

GENERALIZED BAYESIAN THEOREM (GBT); TRANSFERABLE BELIEF MODEL (TBM);

KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0031999096     PISSN: 08848173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1098-111x(199802/03)13:2/3<127::aid-int3>3.0.co;2-1     Document Type: Article

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