On the conceptual status of belief functions with respect to coherent lower probabilities

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Volumn 2143, Issue , 2001, Pages 328-339

  Baroni, Pietro ^a   Vicig, Paolo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTERS;

BELIEF FUNCTION; COHERENT LOWER PROBABILITY; NON NEGATIVES; UNCERTAINTY THEORY;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84937434907     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-44652-4_29     Document Type: Conference Paper

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