DocumentCode
2587464
Title
Measures of nonspecificity for decomposing possibility distributions
Author
Gebhardt, Jerg ; Kruse, Rudolf
Author_Institution
Dept. of Math. & Comput. Sci., Braunschweig Univ., Braunschweig, Germany
fYear
1996
fDate
19-22 Jun 1996
Firstpage
177
Lastpage
179
Abstract
In this paper, we discuss measures of nonspecificity and how to use them in order to solve an important problem of possibilistic graphical modelling, which is to find an optimal hypertree decomposition of a multivariate possibility distribution such that the information loss occurring is minimized
Keywords
information theory; losses; minimisation; possibility theory; trees (mathematics); uncertainty handling; information loss minimization; multivariate possibility distribution; nonspecificity measures; optimal hypertree decomposition; possibilistic graphical modelling; possibility distribution decomposition; uncertainty calculus; Calculus; Computer science; Databases; Graphical models; Knowledge representation; Loss measurement; Mathematics; Multidimensional systems; Probability distribution; Uncertainty;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Fuzzy Information Processing Society, 1996. NAFIPS., 1996 Biennial Conference of the North American
Conference_Location
Berkeley, CA
Print_ISBN
0-7803-3225-3
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/NAFIPS.1996.534725
Filename
534725
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