Fusion rules for context-dependent aggregation of structured news reports

Journal of Applied Non-Classical Logics

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 329-366

  Hunter, Anthony ^a   Summerton, Rupert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conflict resolution; Inconsistency handling; Information aggregation; Information integration; Knowledge fusion; Merging information

Indexed keywords

EID: 18844366044     PISSN: 11663081     EISSN: 19585780     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3166/jancl.14.329-366     Document Type: Conference Paper

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