On the generation of hyper-powersets for the DSmT

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Information Fusion, FUSION 2003

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 1118-1125

  Dezert, Jean ^a   Smarandache, Florentin ^b  

^a ONERA   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Data fusion; Dedekind problem; Dezert smarandache theory (DSmT); Hyper powersets; Monotone boolean functions; Plausible and paradoxical reasoning

Indexed keywords

BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; DATA FUSION;

DEDEKIND PROBLEM; DEZERT-SMARANDACHE THEORY; HYPER-POWERSETS; MONOTONE BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; PLAUSIBLE AND PARADOXICAL REASONING;

INFORMATION FUSION;

EID: 84877680485     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIF.2003.177363     Document Type: Conference Paper

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