Parametric estimation of dempster-shafer belief functions

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Information Fusion, FUSION 2003

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages 485-491

  Zribi, M ^a   Benjelloun, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU LITTORAL CÔTE D OPALE   (France)

Author keywords

Bayesian approach; Belief functions; Dempster shafer theory of evidence; Maximum likelihood estimators

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BAYESIAN NETWORKS; INFORMATION FUSION; ITERATIVE METHODS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

A-POSTERIORI PROBABILITIES; BAYESIAN APPROACHES; BELIEF FUNCTION; DEMPSTER-SHAFER THEORY OF EVIDENCE; EVIDENCE THEORIES; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATOR; PARAMETRIC ESTIMATION; UNCERTAIN INFORMATIONS;

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EID: 27944476548     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIF.2003.177486     Document Type: Conference Paper

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