A practical approach to fusing prioritized knowledge bases

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1695, Issue , 1999, Pages 222-236

  Benferhat, Salem ^a   Dubois, Didier ^a   Prade, Henri ^a   Williams, Mary Anne ^b  

^a IRIT   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Knowledge fusion; Knowledge representation; Possibility theory

Indexed keywords

ITERATIVE METHODS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; SYNTACTICS;

KNOWLEDGE BASE; KNOWLEDGE BASIS; KNOWLEDGE FUSION; POSSIBILITY THEORY;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 84957627603     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-48159-1_16     Document Type: Conference Paper

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