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The treatment of uncertainty in AI: Is there a better vantage point?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 July 2009

Alessandro Saffiotti
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Pisa, C.so Italia 40, 1–56100 Pisa, Italy

Extract

The paper I wrote for the Knowledge Engineering Review was intended primarily to give a balanced review of different techniques developed in (or imported into) Artificial Intelligence to deal with uncertain knowledge.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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