Belief rule-base inference methodology using the evidential reasoning approach - RIMER

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 266-285

  Yang, Jian Bo ^a,b   Liu, Jun ^c   Wang, Jin ^d   Sii, How Sing ^d   Wang, Hong Wei ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^d LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decision making; Evidential reasoning approach; Expert system; Fuzzy sets; Inference mechanisms; Rule based system; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; FUZZY SETS; INFERENCE ENGINES; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS;

BELIEF RULE-BASE INFERENCE METHODOLOGY; EVIDENTIAL REASONING APPROACH; INFERENCE MECHANISMS; RULE-BASED SYSTEM;

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

EID: 33244478309     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCA.2005.851270     Document Type: Article

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