Idempotent conjunctive combination of belief functions: Extending the minimum rule of possibility theory

Information Sciences

Volumn 181, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 3925-3945

  Destercke, S ^a   Dubois, D ^b  

^a CIRAD   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

Belief functions; Contour function; Idempotence; Ill known dependencies; Least commitment

Indexed keywords

BELIEF FUNCTION; CONTOUR FUNCTIONS; IDEMPOTENCE; ILL-KNOWN DEPENDENCIES; LEAST COMMITMENT;

CONTOUR FOLLOWERS; MERGING;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 79959709845     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2011.05.007     Document Type: Article

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