Modeling positive and negative information in possibility theory

International Journal of Intelligent Systems

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1094-1118

  Benferhat, Salem ^a   Dubois, Didier ^b   Kaci, Souhila ^c   Prade, Henri ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ D'ARTOIS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ D'ARTOIS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION THEORY; KETONES; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

CONDITIONAL MEASURES; CONSISTENCY CONDITIONS; NECESSITY MEASURES; NEGATIVE INFORMATIONS; ONE HANDS; POSSIBILISTIC LOGICS; POSSIBILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; POSSIBILITY THEORIES; SEMANTIC LEVELS; TWO TYPES;

KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION;

EID: 55349083673     PISSN: 08848173     EISSN: 1098111X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/int.20308     Document Type: Article

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