Evidential calibration process of multi-agent based system: An application to forensic entomology

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 2361-2374

  Veremme, Alexandre ^a,b,c   Lefevre, Éric ^a,b   Morvan, Gildas ^c   Dupont, Daniel ^c   Jolly, Daniel ^a,b  

^a UNIV LILLE   (France)

^b UArtois   (France)

^c Ecole des Hautes Etudes d'Ingenieur   (France)

Author keywords

Calibration; Dempster Shafer theory of belief function; Evidence theory; Forensic entomology; Multi agent based simulation; Validation

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; FORENSIC SCIENCE; FORMAL LOGIC; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

DEMPSTER-SHAFER THEORY; EVIDENCE THEORIES; FORENSIC ENTOMOLOGY; MULTI AGENT BASED SIMULATIONS; VALIDATION;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 80255138572     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2011.08.075     Document Type: Article

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