Analyzing the applicability of Dempster's rule to the combination of interval-valued belief structures

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 4291-4301

  Fu, Chao ^a   Yang, Shan Lin ^b  

^a HEFEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

Applicability of Dempster's rule; Consistency interval; Consistency measure; Dempster Shafer theory; Relationships of interval valued belief structures

Indexed keywords

CONSISTENCY INTERVAL; CONSISTENCY MEASURES; DEMPSTER'S RULE; DEMPSTER-SHAFER THEORY; INTERVAL-VALUED;

FORMAL LOGIC;

EID: 78650715520     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2010.09.097     Document Type: Article

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