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Introduction to uncertainty formalisms

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Applications of Uncertainty Formalisms

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The heterogeneity of uncertainty in the real-world has driven the development of a wide variety of formal approaches to representing and reasoning with uncertainty in knowledge. There is now a shift to analysing the application of many of these formalisms. Here, we briefly consider some of the issues in the application of uncertainty formalisms.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK

    Anthony Hunter

  2. Department of Electronic Engineering, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, London, E1 4NS, UK

    Simon Parsons

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK

    Anthony Hunter

  2. Queen Mary and Westfield College, Department of Electronic Engineering, University of London, London, E1 4NS, UK

    Simon Parsons

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Hunter, A., Parsons, S. (1998). Introduction to uncertainty formalisms. In: Hunter, A., Parsons, S. (eds) Applications of Uncertainty Formalisms. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1455. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-49426-X_1

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