The unnormalized Dempster's rule of combination: A new justification from the least commitment principle and some extensions

DOI10.1007/s10817-009-9152-7zbMath1205.68429OpenAlexW2066819056MaRDI QIDQ989884

Frédéric Pichon, Thierry Denoeux

Publication date: 23 August 2010

Published in: Journal of Automated Reasoning (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10817-009-9152-7

zbMATH Keywords

Dempster-Shafer theoryinformation fusiontransferable belief modelbelief functionsevidence theoryuncertain reasoningcombination rules

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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