Constraint handling using tournament selection: Abductive inference in partly deterministic bayesian networks

Evolutionary Computation

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 55-88

  Galán, Severino F ^a   Mengshoel, Ole J ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA   (Spain)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Approximate abductive inference; Bayesian network; Constraint optimization problem; Genetic algorithm; Most probable explanation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER NETWORK; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METHODOLOGY; PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 62249172941     PISSN: 10636560     EISSN: 15309304     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/evco.2009.17.1.55     Document Type: Article

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