The principle of minimum specificity as a basis for evidential reasoning

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

Volumn 286 LNCS, Issue , 1987, Pages 75-84

  Dubois, Didier ^a   Prade, Henri ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

DEDUCTIVE REASONING; DEMPSTER; EVIDENCE THEORIES; EVIDENTIAL REASONING; INDEPENDENCE ASSUMPTION; MAXIMUM ENTROPY PRINCIPLE;

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

EID: 84962857625     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-18579-8_6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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