Possibility theory in information fusion

Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Information Fusion, FUSION 2000

Volumn 1, Issue , 2000, Pages

  Dubois, Didier ^a   Prade, Henri ^a  

^a IRIT   (France)

Author keywords

Data fusion; possibility theory

Indexed keywords

DATA FUSION; MERGING;

AGGREGATION OPERATION; CONFLICT ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION PROBLEM; ESTIMATION PROCESS; IMPRECISE INFORMATION; POSSIBILISTIC LOGIC; POSSIBILITY THEORY; QUALITATIVE INFORMATION;

INFORMATION FUSION;

EID: 79952426867     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IFIC.2000.862412     Document Type: Conference Paper

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