A new evaluation method for expert combination in multi-expert system designing

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1857 LNCS, Issue , 2000, Pages 230-239

  Impedovo, S ^a   Salzo, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

ABSTRACT LEVELS; DEMPSTER-SHAFER METHOD; EXPERT COMBINATION; KNOWLEDGE SPACES; MAJORITY VOTE; MULTI-EXPERT SYSTEMS; NEW EVALUATION METHODS; POST HOC COMPARISONS;

EXPERT SYSTEMS;

EID: 23044519609     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45014-9_22     Document Type: Conference Paper

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