Interpretations of belief functions in the theory of rough sets

Information Sciences

Volumn 104, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 81-106

  Yao, Y Y ^a   Lingras, P J ^b  

^a LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ALGOMA UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; FINITE AUTOMATA; FUNCTIONS; SET THEORY;

BELIEF FUNCTIONS; ROUGH SETS;

DECISION THEORY;

EID: 0031632311     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-0255(97)00076-5     Document Type: Article

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