Inferring interventions in product-based possibilistic causal networks

Fuzzy Sets and Systems

Volumn 169, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 26-50

  Benferhat, Salem ^a   Smaoui, Salma ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ D'ARTOIS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TUNIS   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Causality; Graphical models; Interventions; Possibilistic networks; Possibility theory

Indexed keywords

CAUSALITY; GRAPHICAL MODEL; INTERVENTIONS; POSSIBILISTIC; POSSIBILITY THEORY;

ALGORITHMS; GRAPHIC METHODS;

MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS;

EID: 79951554842     PISSN: 01650114     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fss.2010.10.008     Document Type: Article

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