Belief revision and information fusion on optimum entropy

International Journal of Intelligent Systems

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 837-857

  Kern Isberner, Gabriele ^a   Rödder, Wilhelm ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; OPTIMIZATION; PARETO PRINCIPLE; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SET THEORY;

BELIEF REVISION; INFORMATION FUSION; OPTIMUM ENTROPY; PROBABILITY THEORY;

INFORMATION ANALYSIS;

EID: 4444288745     PISSN: 08848173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/int.20027     Document Type: Article

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