About conditional belief function independence

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Volumn 2143, Issue , 2001, Pages 340-349

  Ben Yaghlane, Boutheina ^a   Smets, Philippe ^b   Mellouli, Khaled ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TUNIS   (Tunisia)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Belief functions; Conditional independence; Conditional irrelevance; Conditional non interactivity; Transferable belief model

Indexed keywords

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BELIEF FUNCTION; CONDITIONAL INDEPENDENCES; CONDITIONAL IRRELEVANCE; NON-INTERACTIVITY; TRANSFERABLE BELIEF MODEL;

FUNCTIONS;

EID: 38149114104     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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