On the axiomatic requirement of range to measure uncertainty

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 406, Issue , 2014, Pages 163-168

  Deng, Xinyang ^a   Deng, Yong ^a,b  

^a SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Belief function; Dempster Shafer theory; Entropy; Uncertainty measure

Indexed keywords

ENTROPY; PROBABILISTIC LOGICS;

BELIEF FUNCTION; DEMPSTER-SHAFER THEORY; EFFECTIVE MEASURES; EPISTEMIC UNCERTAINTIES; INFORMATION ENTROPY; PROBABILITY THEORY; SHANNON; UNCERTAINTY MEASURES;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84897551745     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2014.03.060     Document Type: Article

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