The design and testing of a first-order logic-based stochastic modeling language

International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 979-1005

  Pless, Daniel J ^a   Chakrabarti, Chayan ^b   Rammohan, Roshan ^b   Luger, George F ^b  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b MSC01 1070   (United States)

Author keywords

Loopy belief propagation; Parameter fitting; Stochastic modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845660868     PISSN: 02182130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218213006003077     Document Type: Conference Paper

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