Evaluating the weighted sum algorithm for estimating conditional probabilities in Bayesian networks

SEKE 2010 - Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 319-324

  Baker, Simon ^a   Mendes, Emilia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Bayesian network; Conditional probability; CPT elicitation; Expert; Knowledge elicitation; Weighted sum algorithm

Indexed keywords

CONDITIONAL PROBABILITIES; CPT ELICITATION; EXPERT; KNOWLEDGE ELICITATION; WEIGHTED SUM ALGORITHM;

ALGORITHMS; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER NETWORKS; INFERENCE ENGINES; INTELLIGENT NETWORKS; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; PROBABILITY; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS;

EID: 79952386810     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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