Decision making in the TBM: The necessity of the pignistic transformation

International Journal of Approximate Reasoning

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 133-147

  Smets, Philippe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; SET THEORY; THEOREM PROVING; UTILITY PROGRAMS;

LINEARITY; PIGNISTIC TRANSFORMATION; TRANSFERABLE BELIEF MODEL (TBM); TWO-LEVEL MENTAL MODEL;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 9644266682     PISSN: 0888613X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijar.2004.05.003     Document Type: Article

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