Locally strong coherence in inference processes

Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 35, Issue 1-4, 2002, Pages 125-149

  Capotorti, Andrea ^a   Vantaggi, Barbara ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Coherence; Conditional probability assessment; Inference; Locally strong coherence

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141567466     PISSN: 10122443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1014531116863     Document Type: Conference Paper

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