Assessing the weighted sum algorithm for automatic generation of probabilities in Bayesian networks

2010 IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation, ICIA 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 867-873

  Baker, Simon ^a   Mendes, Emilia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Bayesian network; Conditional probability; CPT elicitation; Empirical study; Knowledge elicitation; Weighted sum algorithm

Indexed keywords

CONDITIONAL PROBABILITIES; CPT ELICITATION; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; KNOWLEDGE ELICITATION; WEIGHTED SUM ALGORITHM;

ALGORITHMS; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER NETWORKS; INFERENCE ENGINES; INTELLIGENT NETWORKS; PROBABILITY; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS;

EID: 77955747797     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICINFA.2010.5512447     Document Type: Conference Paper

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