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PNPACK: Computing with probabilities in Java

✍ Scribed by Russell, Stuart; Stiller, Lewis; Hansson, Othar

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1997
Tongue: English
Weight: 71 KB
Volume: 9
Category: Article
ISSN: 1040-3108
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1096-9128(199711)9:11<1333::aid-cpe359>3.0.co;2-v

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✦ Synopsis

This paper outlines several benefits and disadvantages of Java as the implementation language for a probabilistic inference package. Our focus is the linguistic features that make Java appropriate or inappropriate for this task.

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