A qualitative discriminant approach for generating quantitative belief functions

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 345-348

  Bryson, Noel ^a,b   Mobolurin, Ayodele ^a,b  

^a HOWARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IEEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Belief functions; Knowledge acquisition; Numeric interval comparisons; Qualitative belief comparisons; Vague pairwise comparisons

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; EXPERT SYSTEMS; FUNCTIONS; PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING;

BELIEF FUNCTIONS; NUMERIC INTERVAL COMPARISONS; QUALITATIVE BELIEF COMPARISONS; VAGUE PAIRWISE COMPARISONS;

KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION;

EID: 0032022497     PISSN: 10414347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/69.683765     Document Type: Article

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