Guided inference of nested monotone Boolean functions

Information Sciences

Volumn 151, Issue SUPPL, 2003, Pages 171-200

  Torvik, Vetle I ^a   Triantaphyllou, Evangelos ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b Louisiana State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Average query complexity; Guided inference; Membership queries; Nested monotone Boolean functions; Partially ordered sets (posets); Query selection criteria

Indexed keywords

BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

GUIDED INFERENCE;

INFORMATION SCIENCE;

EID: 0037402643     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-0255(03)00062-8     Document Type: Article

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