Fusion of imprecise qualitative information

Applied Intelligence

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 340-351

  Li, Xinde ^a   Dai, Xianzhong ^a   Dezert, Jean ^b   Smarandache, Florentin ^c  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ONERA   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

2 Tuple linguistic label; DSmT; Imprecise belief structures; Information fusion; Qualitative reasoning under uncertainty

Indexed keywords

2-TUPLE; 2-TUPLE LINGUISTIC REPRESENTATIONS; BELIEF STRUCTURES; DEZERT-SMARANDACHE THEORY; DSMT; FUSION RULE; LINGUISTIC INFORMATION; LINGUISTIC LABELS; NEW APPROACHES; QUALITATIVE BELIEFS; QUALITATIVE INFORMATION; QUALITATIVE REASONING; REASONING UNDER UNCERTAINTY;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; INFORMATION FUSION; ROBOT LEARNING;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 78149282412     PISSN: 0924669X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10489-009-0170-2     Document Type: Article

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