New distances between bodies of evidence based on Dempsterian specialization matrices and their consistency with the conjunctive combination rule

International Journal of Approximate Reasoning

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1093-1112

  Loudahi, Mehena ^a   Klein, John ^a   Vannobel, Jean Marc ^a   Colot, Olivier ^a  

^a UNIV LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

Belief functions; Distance; Evidence theory; Specialization matrices

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

BASIC BELIEF ASSIGNMENT; BELIEF FUNCTION; COMBINATION RULES; DISTANCE; DISTANCE EXPERIMENT; ELEMENT INTERACTIONS; EVIDENCE THEORIES; MATHEMATICAL PROPERTIES;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84899933159     PISSN: 0888613X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijar.2014.02.007     Document Type: Article

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