Notes on desirability and conditional lower previsions

Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 251-309

  Miranda, Enrique ^a   Zaffalon, Marco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

^b DALLE MOLLE INSTITUTE FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IDSIA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Coherence; Equal expressivity; Lower and upper previsions; Natural extension; Sets of desirable gambles

Indexed keywords

EID: 79961172649     PISSN: 10122443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10472-011-9231-4     Document Type: Article

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