A Symbolic Approach to Uncertainty Management

Applied Intelligence

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 265-283

  Chachoua, Mohamed ^a   Pacholczyk, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ D'ANGERS   (France)

Author keywords

Artificial intelligence; Belief; Entropy; Ignorance; Many valued logic; Qualitative reasoning; Uncertainty management; Uncertainty representation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042186766     PISSN: 0924669X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026572211922     Document Type: Article

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