Belief assignment on compound hypotheses within the framework of the Transferable Belief Model

2009 12th International Conference on Information Fusion, FUSION 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 498-505

  Veremme, Alexandre ^a,b,c   Dupont, Daniel ^a,b   Lefevre, Éric ^a,c   Mercier, David ^a,c  

^a UNIV LILLE   (France)

^b Ecole des Hautes Etudes d'Ingenieur   (France)

^c UArtois   (France)

Author keywords

Belief theory; Compound hypotheses; Evidence theory; Forensic entomology; Information criteria; Jenks' method; Mass function construction

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONS; INFORMATION FUSION; MAPS;

BELIEF THEORY; COMPOUND HYPOTHESES; EVIDENCE THEORIES; FORENSIC ENTOMOLOGY; INFORMATION CRITERION; JENKS' METHOD; MASS FUNCTIONS;

FORENSIC ENGINEERING;

EID: 70449356939     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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