Automated merging of conflicting knowledge bases, using a consistent, majority-rule approach with knowledge-form maintenance

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1809-1829

  Zobel, Christopher W ^a   Rees, Loren Paul ^a   Rakes, Terry R ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conflict resolution; Knowledge engineering; Knowledge management

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; MAINTENANCE; MERGING;

AUTOMATED MERGING; CONFLICT RESOLUTION; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; KNOWLEDGE-FORM MAINTENANCE;

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

EID: 9644303227     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cor.2003.11.027     Document Type: Article

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