Relevance and truthfulness in information correction and fusion

International Journal of Approximate Reasoning

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 159-175

  Pichon, Frédéric ^a   Dubois, Didier ^b   Denœux, Thierry ^c  

^a THALES RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE TECHNOLOGIE DE COMPIÈGNE   (France)

Author keywords

Belief functions; Boolean logic; Dempster Shafer theory; Discounting; Evidence theory; Information fusion

Indexed keywords

BELIEF FUNCTION; BOOLEAN LOGIC; DEMPSTER-SHAFER THEORY; DISCOUNTING; EVIDENCE THEORIES;

INFORMATION FUSION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

FORMAL LOGIC;

EID: 84855423291     PISSN: 0888613X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijar.2011.02.006     Document Type: Conference Paper

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