Optimization algorithm for learning consistent belief rule-base from examples

Journal of Global Optimization

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 255-270

  Liu, Jun ^a   Martinez, Luis ^b   Ruan, Da ^c,d   Rodriguez, Rosa ^b   Calzada, Alberto ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JAÉN   (Spain)

^c BELGIAN NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTRE   (Belgium)

^d GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Belief rule base; Consistency; Learning; Optimization

Indexed keywords

BELIEF STRUCTURES; CONSISTENCY; CONSISTENCY CONDITIONS; INFERENCE MECHANISM; LEARNING; LEARNING METHODS; NON-LINEAR CONSTRAINTS; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION TOOLS; REAL WORLD DATA; RULE BASE; RULE-BASED INFERENCE; SAMPLE DATA;

ALGORITHMS; INFERENCE ENGINES;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 80053296189     PISSN: 09255001     EISSN: 15732916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10898-010-9605-x     Document Type: Article

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