Certainty-factor-like structures in Bayesian belief networks

Knowledge-Based Systems

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 327-335

  Lucas, P J F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bayesian networks; Causal independence; Certainty factor model; Noisy AND model; Noisy OR model

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY;

BAYESIAN BELIEF NETWORKS;

EXPERT SYSTEMS;

EID: 0035506070     PISSN: 09507051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0950-7051(00)00073-3     Document Type: Article

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