An extended approach for Dempster-Shafer Theory

Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, IRI 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 338-344

  Campos, Fabio ^a   Cavalcante, Sérgio ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Belief functions; Belief modeling; Dempster Shafer Theory; Reasoning representation; Theory of Evidence

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION USE; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; PROBABILISTIC LOGICS; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ARTIFICIAL REASONING; BAYESIAN THEORY; BELIEF FUNCTION; DEMPSTER-SHAFER THEORY; EPISTEMIC REASONINGS; PRIOR KNOWLEDGE; REASONING REPRESENTATION; THEORY OF EVIDENCE;

FORMAL LOGIC;

EID: 64849106067     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IRI.2003.1251435     Document Type: Conference Paper

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