INNER AND OUTER APPROXIMATION OF BELIEF STRUCTURES USING A HIERARCHICAL CLUSTERING APPROACH

DOI10.1142/S0218488501000880zbMath1113.68494MaRDI QIDQ3427942

Thierry Denoeux

Publication date: 27 March 2007

Published in: International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

Dempster-Shafer theoryapproximationbelief functionsfuzzy belief structures

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Knowledge representation (68T30) Reasoning under uncertainty in the context of artificial intelligence (68T37)

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