Generating belief functions from qualitative preferences: An approach to eliciting expert judgments and deriving probability functions

Data and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 145-159

  Ngwenyama, Ojelanki K ^a,b   Bryson, Noel ^a,c  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Belief functions; Expert systems; Knowledge acquisition

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT NETWORKS; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

BELIEF FUNCTIONS;

EXPERT SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032208706     PISSN: 0169023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-023X(98)00008-1     Document Type: Article

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