The Method of Assigning Incidences

Applied Intelligence

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 139-161

  Liu, Weiru ^a   Mcbryan, David ^b   Bundy, Alan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Incidence assignment; Incidence calculus; Numerical assignment; Probabilistic logic; Probability measure; Similarity of incidence assignment

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CALCULATIONS; INPUT OUTPUT PROGRAMS; PROBABILITY;

INCIDENCE ASSIGNMENT; INCIDENCE CALCULUS;

PROBABILISTIC LOGICS;

EID: 0032166656     PISSN: 0924669X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008216002832     Document Type: Article

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