Entropy conserving probability transforms and the entailment principle

Fuzzy Sets and Systems

Volumn 158, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1397-1405

  Yager, Ronald R ^a   Kreinovich, Vladik ^b  

^a MACHINE INTELLIGENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

Author keywords

Entailment principle; Entropy; Possibility probability transformation; Principle of maximal specificity; Specificity

Indexed keywords

FUZZY SETS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

ENTAILMENT PRINCIPLES; MAXIMAL SPECIFICITY; POSSIBILITY-PROBABILITY TRANSFORMATION;

MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

EID: 34247167590     PISSN: 01650114     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fss.2007.01.019     Document Type: Article

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