The relational structure of belief networks

Journal of Intelligent Information Systems

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 117-148

  Wong, S K M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Axiomatization of probabilistic conditional independencies; Belief networks; Data dependencies; Extended relational data model; Generalized acyclic join dependency; Information preserving decomposition; Markov distributions

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA STRUCTURES; GRAPH THEORY; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; THEOREM PROVING;

BELIEF NETWORKS; DATA DEPENDENCIES; EXTENDED RELATIONAL DATA MODEL; GENERALIZED ACYCLIC JOINT DEPENDENCY; MARKOV DISTRIBUTIONS; PROBABILISTIC CONDITIONAL INDEPENDENCIES;

RELATIONAL DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 0035267673     PISSN: 09259902     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1011237717300     Document Type: Article

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