Qualitative probabilistic networks with reduced ambiguities

Applied Intelligence

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 159-178

  Yue, Kun ^a   Yao, Yu ^a   Li, Jin ^a   Liu, Wei Yi ^a  

^a YUNNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Inference; Influence weight; Probabilistic rough set; Qualitative influence; Qualitative probabilistic network (QPN); Trade off resolution

Indexed keywords

INFERENCE; INFLUENCE WEIGHT; QUALITATIVE INFLUENCES; QUALITATIVE PROBABILISTIC NETWORKS; ROUGH SET; TRADE-OFF RESOLUTION;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; INFERENCE ENGINES; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; ROUGH SET THEORY; SECURITY OF DATA;

COMMERCE;

EID: 77956756012     PISSN: 0924669X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10489-008-0156-5     Document Type: Article

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