Fusion rules for merging uncertain information

Information Fusion

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 97-134

  Hunter, Anthony ^a   Liu, Weiru ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Logic; Meta language; Uncertain information

Indexed keywords

FORMAL LOGIC; MERGING; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY; REPORT GENERATORS; WORD PROCESSING; XML;

FUSION RULE; META-LANGUAGE; SCRIPTING; UNCERTAIN INFORMATION;

INFORMATION SCIENCE;

EID: 31144438286     PISSN: 15662535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.inffus.2005.02.006     Document Type: Article

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