Quantitative inference by qualitative semantic knowledge mining with Bayesian model averaging

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1587-1600

  Chang, Rui ^a   Stetter, Martin ^b   Brauer, Wilfried ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bayesian model averaging; Bayesian network inference; Bayesian networks; Bone metastasis; Breast cancer; Monte Carlo simulation; Qualitative knowledge modeling; Qualitative probabilistic network

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER NETWORKS; INFERENCE ENGINES; INFORMATION THEORY; INTELLIGENT NETWORKS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PATHOLOGY; PROBABILITY; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

BAYESIAN MODEL AVERAGING; BAYESIAN NETWORK INFERENCE; BONE METASTASIS; BREAST CANCER; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; QUALITATIVE KNOWLEDGE MODELING; QUALITATIVE PROBABILISTIC NETWORK;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS;

EID: 55949104584     PISSN: 10414347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TKDE.2008.89     Document Type: Article

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