The evidential reasoning approach for inference in rule-based systems

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Volumn 3, Issue , 2003, Pages 2461-2468

  Yang, Jian Bo ^a   Liu, Jun ^a   Wang, Jin ^b   Sii, H S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decision making; Expert system; Fuzzy sets; Inference; Knowledge base; Rule base; The evidential reasoning approach; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; EXPERT SYSTEMS; FUZZY SETS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; INFERENCE ENGINES; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; PROBABILITY; UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS;

BAYESIAN PROBABILITY THEORY; DEMPSTER-SHAFER THEORY; EVIDENTIAL REASONING APPROACH;

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

EID: 0242637643     PISSN: 08843627     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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