Use of Elvira's explanation facility for debugging probabilistic expert systems

Knowledge-Based Systems

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 730-738

  Lacave, Carmen ^a   Oniśko, Agnieszka ^b   Díez, Francisco J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

^b BIALYSTOK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bayesian networks; Development; Explanation; Human computer interaction; Knowledge acquisition

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILISTIC LOGICS;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; DEVELOPMENT; EXPLANATION;

EXPERT SYSTEMS;

EID: 33750719105     PISSN: 09507051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.knosys.2006.05.010     Document Type: Article

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