New semantics for quantitative possibility theory

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Volumn 2143, Issue , 2001, Pages 410-421

  Dubois, Didier ^a   Prade, Henri ^a   Smets, Philippe ^b  

^a IRIT   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEMANTICS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BELIEF FUNCTION; BELIEF STRUCTURES; NUMERICAL VALUES; POSSIBILITY DEGREE; POSSIBILITY MEASURE; POSSIBILITY THEORY; PROBABILITY MEASURES; TRANSFERABLE BELIEF MODEL;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 84937434134     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-44652-4_36     Document Type: Conference Paper

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