Optimization models for training belief-rule-based systems

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 569-585

  Yang, Jian Bo ^a,b,c   Liu, Jun ^d   Xu, Dong Ling ^a   Wang, Jin ^e   Wang, Hongwei ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c HEFEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^e LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Belief rule base (BRB); Decision making; Evidential reasoning (ER); Expert system; Inference; Multiple objective optimization; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; DECISION MAKING; INFERENCE ENGINES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION;

BELIEF RULE BASE; EVIDENTIAL REASONING;

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

EID: 34347396971     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCA.2007.897606     Document Type: Article

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