What Is Uncertainty and How to Deal With It?
Uncertainty is essentially lack of information to formulate a decision. The presence of uncertainty may result in making poor or bad decisions. In our daily life, as human beings, we are accustomed to dealing with uncertainty – that’s how we survive.
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Grosan, C., Abraham, A. (2011). Managing Uncertainty in Rule Based Expert Systems. In: Intelligent Systems. Intelligent Systems Reference Library, vol 17. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21004-4_8
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