On the plausibility transformation method for translating belief function models to probability models

DOI10.1016/j.ijar.2005.06.008zbMath1093.68112OpenAlexW2020797150MaRDI QIDQ2489264

Prakash P. Shenoy, Barry R. Cobb

Publication date: 16 May 2006

Published in: International Journal of Approximate Reasoning (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijar.2005.06.008

zbMATH Keywords

Dempster-Shafer belief functionsDempster's rule of combinationPignistic transformation methodPlausibility transformation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Reasoning under uncertainty in the context of artificial intelligence (68T37)

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