Information Fusion in Continuous Assurance

Journal of Information Systems

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 35-52

  Perols, Johan L ^a   Murthy, Uday S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial intelligence; Continuous assurance; Information fusion; Machine learning; REA

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870750991     PISSN: 08887985     EISSN: 15587959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/isys-50216     Document Type: Article

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