Classic works of the Dempster-Shafer theory of belief functions: An introduction

Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing

Volumn 219, Issue , 2008, Pages 1-34

  Liu, Lipin ^a   Yager, Ronald R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

^b MACHINE INTELLIGENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

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EID: 38849190743     PISSN: 14349922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-44792-4_1     Document Type: Review

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