Belief decision trees: Theoretical foundations

International Journal of Approximate Reasoning

Volumn 28, Issue 2-3, 2001, Pages 91-124

  Elouedi, Zied ^a   Mellouli, Khaled ^a   Smets, Philippe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TUNIS   (Tunisia)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Belief decision tree; Belief functions; Classification; Decision tree; Transferable belief model

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; TREES (MATHEMATICS); UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS;

BELIEF DECISION TREES; TRANSFERRABLE BELIEF MODEL (TBM);

DECISION THEORY;

EID: 0035501830     PISSN: 0888613X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0888-613X(01)00045-7     Document Type: Article

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