Inference in hybrid Bayesian networks

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 94, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1499-1509

  Langseth, Helge ^a   Nielsen, Thomas D ^b   Rumí, Rafael ^c   Salmerón, Antonio ^c  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALMERÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bayesian networks; Hybrid models; Inference; Reliability

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS (BNS); COMPLEX SYSTEMS; CONTINUOUS VARIABLES; FAULT-TREE; HUMAN RELIABILITY; HYBRID BAYESIAN NETWORKS; HYBRID DOMAIN; HYBRID MODELS; INFERENCE; MODELLING FRAMEWORK; RELIABILITY BLOCK DIAGRAMS; RELIABILITY TECHNIQUES; STATISTICAL MODELS;

DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER NETWORKS; HYBRID SENSORS; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; INFERENCE ENGINES; INTELLIGENT NETWORKS; RELIABILITY; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS;

EID: 67649422327     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2009.02.027     Document Type: Article

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