Knowledge fusion using Dempster-Shafer theory and the imprecise dirichlet model

SMCia/08 - Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE Conference on Soft Computing on Industrial Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 142-148

  Andrade, Daniel ^a   Horeis, Timo ^b   Sick, Bernhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PASSAU   (Germany)

^b GOOGLE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASS LABELS; COLLABORATIVE KNOWLEDGE; COMBINATION RULES; CONFLICTING BELIEF; CONVERGENCE BEHAVIORS; DATA MINING APPLICATIONS; DATA SAMPLE; DEMPSTER-SHAFER RULE; DEMPSTER-SHAFER THEORY; EXPERT KNOWLEDGE; EXPERT STATEMENTS; IMPRECISE DIRICHLET MODEL; KNOWLEDGE FUSION; NUMERICAL EVALUATIONS; ORGANIC COMPUTING; RULE BASED;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; SOFT COMPUTING;

FORMAL LOGIC;

EID: 58849086834     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SMCIA.2008.5045950     Document Type: Conference Paper

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