Probabilistic transformations of belief functions

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3571 LNAI, Issue , 2005, Pages 539-551

  Daniel, Milan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Belief function; Combination consistency; Dempster Shafer theory; Pignistic probability; Probabilistic transformation; Ulb consistency

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; PROBABILISTIC LOGICS; PROBABILITY;

BELIEF FUNCTION; COMBINATION CONSISTENCY; DEMPSTER-SHAFER THEORY; PIGNISTIC PROBABILITY; PROBABILISTIC TRANSFORMATION; ULB-CONSISTENCY;

FUNCTIONS;

EID: 26944431567     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11518655_46     Document Type: Conference Paper

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