Hierarchical neural networks utilising dempster-shafer evidence theory

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

Volumn 4087 LNAI, Issue , 2006, Pages 198-209

  Fay, Rebecca ^a   Schwenker, Friedhelm ^a   Thiel, Christian ^a   Palm, Günther ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DATA STRUCTURES; DECISION TABLES; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PROBABILISTIC LOGICS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

CLASSIFICATION PROBLEMS; DECISION TREES; DEMPSTER-SHAFER EVIDENCE THEORY; HIERARCHICAL NEURAL NETWORKS;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 33749388237     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11829898_18     Document Type: Conference Paper

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