A cumulative belief degree-based approach for missing values in nuclear safeguards evaluation

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1441-1454

  Kabak, Özgür ^a,b   Ruan, Da ^a,c  

^a BELGIAN NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTRE   (Belgium)

^b ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cumulative belief degree; decision support; linguistic processing; missing values; nuclear safeguards evaluation

Indexed keywords

BELIEF DEGREES; DECISION SUPPORTS; LINGUISTIC PROCESSING; MISSING VALUES; NUCLEAR SAFEGUARDS;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; LINGUISTICS; NUCLEAR ENERGY;

NUCLEAR WEAPONS;

EID: 80051768250     PISSN: 10414347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TKDE.2010.60     Document Type: Article

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