Some views on information fusion and logic based approaches in decision making under uncertainty

Journal of Universal Computer Science

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 3-21

  Xu, Yang ^a   Liu, Jun ^b   Martínez, Luis ^c   Ruan, Da ^d  

^a SOUTHWEST JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF JAÉN   (Spain)

^d GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Computing with words; Decision making; Information fusion; Logics; Uncertain information processing; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950185716     PISSN: 0958695X     EISSN: 09486968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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