A simulated annealing-based method for learning Bayesian networks from statistical data

International Journal of Intelligent Systems

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 335-348

  Janžra, Martin ^a   Nielsen, Jan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION THEORY AND AUTOMATION   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; MARKOV PROCESSES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; RANDOM PROCESSES;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO APPROACH; STOCHASTIC ALGORITHM;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 33645281928     PISSN: 08848173     EISSN: 1098111X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/int.20138     Document Type: Conference Paper

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