Propagating belief functions in qualitative Markov trees

International Journal of Approximate Reasoning

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 1987, Pages 349-400

  Shafer, Glenn ^a   Shenoy, Prakash P ^a   Mellouli, Khaled ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian propagation; belief functions; causal trees; combination of evidence; Dempster's rule; Dempster Shafer theory; diagnostic trees; partitions; probability; propagation of evidence; qualitative independence; qualitative Markov trees

Indexed keywords

EID: 38249034068     PISSN: 0888613X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0888-613X(87)90024-7     Document Type: Article

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