Renosterveld conservation in South Africa: A case study for handling uncertainty in knowledge-based neural networks for environmental management

Journal of Environmental Informatics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 56-65

  Chandra, R ^a   Knight, R ^b   Omlin, C W ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Biodiversity and conservation; Decision support system for environmental management; Expert knowledge refinement; Gradient descent learning algorithm; Inductive bias; Knowledge uncertainty; Knowledge based neurocomputing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIODIVERSITY; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; LEARNING; VEGETATION;

AFRICA; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 62249083189     PISSN: 17262135     EISSN: 16848799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3808/jei.200900140     Document Type: Article

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