A geometric and game-theoretic study of the conjunction of possibility measures

DOI10.1016/J.INS.2014.10.067zbMATH Open1360.68845arXiv1409.4732OpenAlexW2079205573MaRDI QIDQ528679FDOQ528679

Sumit K. Garg, Yong-Cai Geng

Publication date: 16 May 2017

Published in: Information Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper, we study the conjunction of possibility measures when they are interpreted as coherent upper probabilities, that is, as upper bounds for some set of probability measures. We identify conditions under which the minimum of two possibility measures remains a possibility measure. We provide graphical way to check these conditions, by means of a zero-sum game formulation of the problem. This also gives us a nice way to adjust the initial possibility measures so their minimum is guaranteed to be a possibility measure. Finally, we identify conditions under which the minimum of two possibility measures is a coherent upper probability, or in other words, conditions under which the minimum of two possibility measures is an exact upper bound for the intersection of the credal sets of those two possibility measures.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.4732

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zbMATH Keywords

coherencegame theoryimprecise probabilitypossibility measureconjunctionnatural extension

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of game theory (91A80) Reasoning under uncertainty in the context of artificial intelligence (68T37) Probabilistic measure theory (60A10)

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