Generalized belief function, plausibility function, and Dempster's combinational rule to fuzzy sets

International Journal of Intelligent Systems

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 925-937

  Yang, Miin Shen ^a   Chen, Tsang Chih ^a   Wu, Kuo Lung ^a  

^a CHUNG YUAN CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY; SET THEORY;

DEMPSTER-SHAFER (DST) THEORY;

FUZZY SETS;

EID: 0042736039     PISSN: 08848173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/int.10126     Document Type: Article

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