Hierarchical fusion of expert opinions in the Transferable Belief Model, application to climate sensitivity

International Journal of Approximate Reasoning

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 555-574

  Ha Duong, Minh ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Climate sensitivity; Expert aggregation; Information fusion; Transferable Belief Model

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; DATA FUSION; GLOBAL WARMING; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION;

CLIMATE SENSITIVITIES; CLIMATE SENSITIVITY; EXPERT AGGREGATION; EXPERT OPINIONS; KEY PARAMETERS; SCIENTIFIC THEORIES; SOCIOLOGY OF SCIENCES; TRANSFERABLE BELIEF MODEL; TRANSFERABLE BELIEF MODELS;

FUSION REACTIONS;

EID: 55649115986     PISSN: 0888613X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijar.2008.05.003     Document Type: Article

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