Uncertain information management for ADL monitoring in smart homes

Studies in Computational Intelligence

Volumn 189, Issue , 2009, Pages 315-332

  Hong, Xin ^a   Nugent, Chris ^a   Liu, Weiru ^b   Ma, Jianbing ^b   Mcclean, Sally ^a   Scotney, Bryan ^a   Mulvenna, Maurice ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Belief merging; Belief revision; DS theory; Epistemic state; Information fusion; Ordinal conditional function; Smart sensorised living environment; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 62249141010     PISSN: 1860949X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-00179-6_19     Document Type: Article

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