A survey of belief rule-base expert system

ZJ Zhou, GY Hu, CH Hu, CL Wen… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The belief rule-base (BRB) model is a new intelligent expert system with the characteristics
of both expert system and data-driven model. In BRB there are many if-then rules which use …

Belief rule based expert system for classification problems with new rule activation and weight calculation procedures

L Chang, ZJ Zhou, Y You, L Yang, Z Zhou - Information Sciences, 2016 - Elsevier
Classification problems are significant because they constitute a meta-model for multiple
theoretical and practical applications from a wide range of fields. The belief rule based …

Structure learning for belief rule base expert system: A comparative study

L Chang, Y Zhou, J Jiang, M Li, X Zhang - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2013 - Elsevier
The Belief Rule Base (BRB) is an expert system which can handle both qualitative and
quantitative information. One of the applications of the BRB is the Rule-base Inference …

A new approximate belief rule base expert system for complex system modelling

Y Cao, ZJ Zhou, CH Hu, SW Tang, J Wang - Decision Support Systems, 2021 - Elsevier
Expert knowledge is the foundation of the interpretability of belief rule base (BRB) expert
system. However, the rule explosion problem and weak extendability of BRB limit the …

A novel belief rule base representation, generation and its inference methodology

J Liu, L Martinez, A Calzada, H Wang - Knowledge-based systems, 2013 - Elsevier
Advancement and application of rule-based systems have always been a key research area
in computer-aided support for human decision making due to the fact that rule base is one of …

On the interpretability of belief rule-based expert systems

Y Cao, Z Zhou, C Hu, W He… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As the generalization of fuzzy systems, the belief rule base (BRB) expert system is
transparent and interpretable. However, the interpretability of BRB has almost been ignored …

Inference analysis and adaptive training for belief rule based systems

YW Chen, JB Yang, DL Xu, ZJ Zhou… - Expert Systems with …, 2011 - Elsevier
Belief rule base (BRB) systems are an extension of traditional IF-THEN rule based systems
and capable of capturing complicated nonlinear causal relationships between antecedent …

Belief rule-base inference methodology using the evidential reasoning approach-RIMER

JB Yang, J Liu, J Wang, HS Sii… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a generic rule-base inference methodology using the evidential reasoning
(RIMER) approach is proposed. Existing knowledge-base structures are first examined, and …

Generic disjunctive belief-rule-base modeling, inferencing, and optimization

LL Chang, ZJ Zhou, H Liao, YW Chen… - … on Fuzzy Systems, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The combinatorial explosion problem is a great challenge for belief rule base (BRB) when a
complex system has overnumbered attributes and/or referenced values for the attributes …

A new belief rule base model with attribute reliability

Z Feng, ZJ Zhou, C Hu, L Chang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In current studies of the belief rule base (BRB) model, the attributes are assumed to be fully
reliable and the observation data are directly used as input. However, in engineering …