A note on conditional logics and entropy

International Journal of Approximate Reasoning

Volumn 19, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 231-246

  Kern Isberner, Gabriele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conditional logic; Maximum entropy; Minimum cross entropy; Nonmonotonic inference; Probabilistic logic; Quantified uncertain reasoning

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347877228     PISSN: 0888613X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0888-613X(98)10007-5     Document Type: Article

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