Bayesian network modelling through qualitative patterns

Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 163, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 233-263

  Lucas, Peter J F ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bayesian networks; Knowledge representation; Qualitative reasoning

Indexed keywords

BOOLEAN ALGEBRA; BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SEMANTICS; SPECIFICATIONS;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; PROBABILITY THEORY; QUALITATIVE PROBABILISTIC NETWORKS (QPN); QUALITATIVE REASONING;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 14544288172     PISSN: 00043702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.artint.2004.10.011     Document Type: Article

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