Measures of uncertainty in expert systems

DOI10.1016/0004-3702(95)00009-7zbMath1506.68157OpenAlexW4211258549MaRDI QIDQ2171255

Peter Walley

Publication date: 23 September 2022

Published in: Artificial Intelligence (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0004-3702(95)00009-7

zbMATH Keywords

independencedecisionpossibility theoryDempster-Shafer theoryconditional probabilityinferenceimprecise probabilitiesbelief functionsprevisionBayesian theorylower probabilityupper probability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Reasoning under uncertainty in the context of artificial intelligence (68T37) Theory of languages and software systems (knowledge-based systems, expert systems, etc.) for artificial intelligence (68T35)

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Uses Software

• PULCinella

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