Certainty-factor-like structures in Bayesian networks

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1792, Issue , 2000, Pages 25-36

  Lucas, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; EXPERT SYSTEMS;

BAYESIAN NETWORK MODELS; CAUSAL INDEPENDENCE; CERTAINTY FACTORS; PROBABILISTIC MODELS; RULE BASED EXPERT SYSTEMS; UNCERTAIN KNOWLEDGE;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS;

EID: 77952005420     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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