Bridging Jeffrey's rule, AGM revision and dempster conditioning in the theory of evidence

International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 691-720

  Ma, Jianbing ^a   Liu, Weiru ^a   Dubois, Didier ^b   Prade, Henri ^b  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

Author keywords

belief revision; Dempster conditioning; probability; Theory of evidence

Indexed keywords

BELIEF FUNCTION; BELIEF REVISION; COMBINATION OPERATION; COMBINATION RULES; DEMPSTER; DEMPSTER RULE; DEMPSTER RULE OF COMBINATION; EVIDENCE THEORIES; PRIOR INFORMATION; PRIOR KNOWLEDGE; PROBABILITY KINEMATICS; THEORY OF EVIDENCE;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; GALLIUM; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

PROBABILISTIC LOGICS;

EID: 80051518013     PISSN: 02182130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218213011000401     Document Type: Conference Paper

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