Cautious conjunctive merging of belief functions

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

Volumn 4724 LNAI, Issue , 2007, Pages 332-343

  Destercke, Sebastien ^a,b   Dubois, Didier ^b   Chojnacki, Eric ^a  

^a UFR 919 Laboratoire d'Informatique Pour la Mécanique et les Sciences de l'Ingénieur   (France)

^b IRIT   (France)

Author keywords

Belief functions; Dependence; Least commitment

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION ANALYSIS; LOGIC PROGRAMMING;

BELIEF FUNCTIONS; LEAST COMMITMENT;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS;

EID: 38049188033     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-75256-1_31     Document Type: Conference Paper

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