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Parallel Combination of Information Sources

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Part of the book series: Handbook of Defeasible Reasoning and Uncertainty Management Systems ((HAND,volume 3))

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The problem of handling imperfect information has turned out to be a very important issue in the practical use of artificial intelligence for many industrial applications [Luo and Kay, 1995; Pfleger et al., 1993].

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Gebhardt, J., Kruse, R. (1998). Parallel Combination of Information Sources. In: Dubois, D., Prade, H. (eds) Belief Change. Handbook of Defeasible Reasoning and Uncertainty Management Systems, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5054-5_9

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