Aids to Bayesian belief network construction

2004 2nd International IEEE Conference 'Intelligent Systems' - Proceedings

Volumn 2, Issue , 2004, Pages 457-461

  Rajabally, Eshan ^a   Sen, Pratyush ^a   Whittle, Steve ^b   Dalton, John ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Innovation Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Belief elicitation; Decision support; Reasoning under uncertainty; Topology determination

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DIAGNOSIS; GRAPH THEORY; PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; RISK ASSESSMENT; WEATHER FORECASTING;

BILIEF ELICITATION; CONDITIONAL PROBABILITY TABLE (CPT); REASONING UNDER UNCERTAINTY; TOPOLOGY DETERMINATION;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 10044267806     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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