Approaches to bayesian network model construction

Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering

Volumn 229 LNEE, Issue , 2013, Pages 461-474

  Achumba, Ifeyinwa E ^a   Azzi, Djamel ^a   Ezebili, Ifeanyi ^b   Bersch, Sebastian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Bayesian networks; BN model construction; BN model parameterization; Parameter learning; Performance index; Structure learning

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES;

MODEL CONSTRUCTION; MODEL PARAMETERIZATION; PARAMETER LEARNING; PERFORMANCE INDICES; STRUCTURE-LEARNING;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS;

EID: 84880737981     PISSN: 18761100     EISSN: 18761119     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-6190-2_35     Document Type: Conference Paper

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