Chance discovery and scenario analysis

New Generation Computing

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 13-22

  McBurney, Peter ^a   Parsons, Simon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Argumentation; Chance discovery; Ensembles; Forecasting; Scenarios

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CHANCE DISCOVERY; DIALECTICAL ARGUMENTATION; ENSEMBLES; SCENARIO ANALYSIS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 0037258148     PISSN: 02883635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03042322     Document Type: Article

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