Constructing confidence belief functions from one expert

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 8537-8548

  Yang, Shan Lin ^a   Fu, Chao ^a  

^a HEFEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Bounded rationality; Confidence belief functions; Dempster Shafer theory; Scalability; Self confidence measure

Indexed keywords

FORMAL LOGIC; FUNCTIONS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PROGRAMMING THEORY; SCALABILITY;

A-FRAMES; BELIEF STRUCTURES; BOUNDED RATIONALITY; CONFIDENCE BELIEF FUNCTIONS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CONSISTENT SUBSETS; DEMPSTER-SHAFER THEORY; EXISTING METHODS; INFORMATION PROVIDERS; NUMERICAL EXAMPLES; POWER SETS; SELF-CONFIDENCE MEASURE; TIME INTERVALS;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

EID: 60249099437     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2008.10.054     Document Type: Article

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