Sensitivity analysis: an aid for belief-network quantification

Knowledge Engineering Review

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 215-232

  Coupé, Veerle M H ^a   Van Der Gaag, Linda C ^b   Habbema, J Dik F ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; EXPERT SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY;

BAYESIAN BELIEF NETWORKS; BELIEF NETWORK QUANTIFICATION;

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034262312     PISSN: 02698889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0269888900003027     Document Type: Article

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