Integrating Domain Knowledge with Data: From Crisp to Probabilistic and Fuzzy Knowledge

Authors

Hung T. Nguyen
Vladik Kreinovich, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow
Leonid Reznik

Publication Date

5-2000

Comments

UTEP-CS-00-18a.

Published in Proceedings of the UAI-2000 Workshop on Fusion of Domain Knowledge with Data for Decision Support, Stanford University, June 30, 2000.

Abstract

It is well known that prior knowledge about the domain can improve (often drastically) the accuracy of the estimates of the physical quantities in comparison with the estimates which are solely based on the measurement results. In this paper, we show how a known method of integrating crisp domain knowledge with data can be (naturally) extended to the case when the domain knowledge is described in statistical or fuzzy terms.