On the applicability of maximum entropy to inexact reasoning

DOI10.1016/0888-613X(89)90012-1zbMath0665.68079OpenAlexW2051165274MaRDI QIDQ1116362

Jeffrey Bruce Paris, Alena Vencovská

Publication date: 1989

Published in: International Journal of Approximate Reasoning (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0888-613x(89)90012-1

zbMATH Keywords

maximum entropyexpert systemsinductive inferenceinexact reasoning

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Theory of languages and software systems (knowledge-based systems, expert systems, etc.) for artificial intelligence (68T35) Measures of information, entropy (94A17)

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