Uncertain information: Random variables in graded semilattices

International Journal of Approximate Reasoning

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 17-34

  Kohlas, Jürg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOOLEAN ALGEBRA; FUNCTIONS; LINEAR EQUATIONS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ALGEBRAIC STRUCTURE MODELS; DEMPSTER-SHAFER THEORY; PROBABILISTIC ARGUMENTATION SYSTEMS; STOCHASTIC DISTURBANCES;

RANDOM VARIABLES;

EID: 34548034453     PISSN: 0888613X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijar.2006.12.005     Document Type: Article

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