An intelligent decision support tool based on belief rule-based inference methodology

IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2638-2643

  Calzada, Alberto ^a   Liu, Jun ^a   Wang, Hui ^a   Martinez, Luis ^b   Kashyap, Anil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JAÉN   (Spain)

Author keywords

belief rule base; decision making; decision support system; knowledge based system; uncertainty

Indexed keywords

DECISION PROBLEMS; DECISION SUPPORT TOOLS; DECISION SUPPORTS; END USERS; HUMAN DECISION MAKING; INTELLIGENT DECISION SUPPORT; RULE BASE; RULE-BASED INFERENCE; SPECIFIC PROBLEMS; UNCERTAINTY;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; FUZZY INFERENCE; FUZZY SYSTEMS;

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

EID: 80053091463     PISSN: 10987584     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/FUZZY.2011.6007515     Document Type: Conference Paper

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