Bayesian network refinement via machine learning approach

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 240-251

  Lam, Wai ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Bayesian networks; Data mining; Knowledge base refinement; Machine learning; Uncertainty reasoning

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA STRUCTURES; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; KNOWLEDGE BASED REFINEMENT; UNCERTAINTY REASONING;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 0032026878     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/34.667882     Document Type: Article

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