A comparison of Bayesian and belief function reasoning

Information Systems Frontiers

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 345-358

  Cobb, Barry R ^a   Shenoy, Prakash P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian networks; Dempster Shafer belief functions; Valuation based systems

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DIFFERENTIATION (CALCULUS); GRAPHIC METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METRIC SYSTEM; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SEMANTICS; SET THEORY; VECTORS;

ACYCLIC GRAPHS; BAYESIAN NETWORKS; DEMPSTER-SHAFER BELIEF FUNCTIONS; VALUATION-BASED SYSTEMS;

FUNCTIONS;

EID: 0344152300     PISSN: 13873326     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:ISFI.0000005650.63806.03     Document Type: Article

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