Belief function correction mechanisms

Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing

Volumn 249, Issue , 2010, Pages 203-222

  Mercier, David ^a   Denœux, Thierry ^b   Masson, Marie Hélène ^c  

^a UNIV LILLE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TECHNOLOGIE DE COMPIÈGNE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE PICARDIE JULES VERNE   (France)

Author keywords

Belief functions; Dempster Shafer theory; Discounting operations; Disjunctive and conjunctive canonical decompositions

Indexed keywords

EID: 75749136908     PISSN: 14349922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-10728-3_11     Document Type: Conference Paper

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