An interpretation of belief functions on infinite universes in the theory of rough sets

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

Volumn 5306 LNAI, Issue , 2008, Pages 71-80

  Wu, Wei Zhi ^a   Mi, Ju Sheng ^b  

^a ZHEJIANG OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HEBEI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Approximation operators; Belief functions; Belief structures; Rough sets

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATION THEORY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

APPROXIMATION OPERATORS; APPROXIMATION SPACES; BELIEF AND PLAUSIBILITY; BELIEF FUNCTION; BELIEF STRUCTURES; INFINITE UNIVERSE; LOWER AND UPPER APPROXIMATIONS; LOWER AND UPPER PROBABILITIES;

ROUGH SET THEORY;

EID: 57049141454     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-88425-5_8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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