Conditioning and updating evidence

International Journal of Approximate Reasoning

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 75-108

  Kulasekere, E C ^a   Premaratne, K ^b   Dewasurendra, D A ^b,d   Shyu, M L ^b   Bauer, P H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MORATUWA   (Sri Lanka)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c University of Notre Dame   (United States)

^d VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditioning evidence; Dempster Shafer theory; Distributed decision networks; Evidential reasoning; Updating evidence

Indexed keywords

CONDITIONING EVIDENCE; DEMPSTER-SHAFER THEORY; DISTRIBUTED DECISION NETWORKS; EVIDENTIAL REASONING; UPDATING EVIDENCE;

COMPUTER VISION; DATA MINING; DECISION THEORY; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; NUMERICAL METHODS; ROBOTICS; UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 1542400020     PISSN: 0888613X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijar.2003.10.001     Document Type: Article

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