Bounds on belief and plausibility of functionally propagated random sets

Annual Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society - NAFIPS

Volumn 2002-January, Issue , 2002, Pages 412-417

  Joslyn, C ^a   Helton, J C ^b  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Analytical models; Context modeling; Convergence; Information analysis; Monte Carlo methods; Performance analysis; Risk analysis; Sampling methods; System performance; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL MODELS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION SCIENCE; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; RISK ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SET THEORY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CONTEXT MODELING; CONVERGENCE; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; SAMPLING METHOD; SYSTEM PERFORMANCE; UNCERTAINTY;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 84948687311     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NAFIPS.2002.1018095     Document Type: Conference Paper

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