The modified Dempster-Shafer approach to classification

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans.

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 96-104

  Fixsen, Dale ^a   Mahler, Ronald P S ^b  

^a Applied Research Corporation   (United States)

^b LOCKHEED MARTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMBINATORIAL MATHEMATICS; INFORMATION THEORY; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES;

BAYESIAN PRIOR DISTRIBUTIONS; COMBINATORIAL EVIDENCE EXPLOSION; MODIFIED DEMPSTER SHAFER (MDS) APPROACH; RANDOM SET THEORY;

SET THEORY;

EID: 0030871099     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3468.553228     Document Type: Article

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