Inference and learning methodology of belief-rule-based expert system for pipeline leak detection

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 103-113

  Xu, Dong Ling ^a   Liu, Jun ^b   Yang, Jian Bo ^a   Liu, Guo Ping ^c,e,f   Wang, Jin ^d   Jenkinson, Ian ^d   Ren, Jun ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLAMORGAN   (United Kingdom)

^d LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^f CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Belief rule base; Expert system; Leak detection; Optimisation; The evidential reasoning approach

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERT SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; LEAK DETECTION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION;

BELIEF RULE; CAUSAL RELATIONSHIPS; OPERATING DATA;

LEAKAGE (FLUID);

EID: 33748600128     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2005.11.015     Document Type: Article

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