Interval belief structure rule-based system using extended fuzzy Dempster-Shafer inference

Conference Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 3017-3022

  Aminravan, Farzad ^a   Hoorfar, Mina ^a   Sadiq, Rehan ^a   Fransicque, Alex ^a   Najjaran, Homayoun ^a   Rodriguez, Manuel J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

evidential reasoning; fuzzy Dempster Shafer theory; fuzzy inference systems; interval belief degree; knowledge base

Indexed keywords

BELIEF DEGREES; DEMPSTER-SHAFER THEORY; EVIDENTIAL REASONING; FUZZY INFERENCE SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE BASE;

CYBERNETICS; FORMAL LOGIC; FUZZY SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; RISK ASSESSMENT; WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS; WATER QUALITY;

FUZZY INFERENCE;

EID: 83755174213     PISSN: 1062922X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSMC.2011.6084122     Document Type: Conference Paper

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