Belief function independence: I. The marginal case

International Journal of Approximate Reasoning

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 47-70

  Ben Yaghlane, Boutheina ^a   Smets, Philippe ^b   Mellouli, Khaled ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TUNIS   (Tunisia)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Belief functions; Doxastic independence; Irrelevance; Non interactivity; Transferable belief model

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036131493     PISSN: 0888613X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0888-613X(01)00055-X     Document Type: Article

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