Dempster's rule of combination is #P-complete
β Scribed by Pekka Orponen
- Book ID
- 111708403
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1990
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 399 KB
- Volume
- 44
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0004-3702
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
Within the theory of belief functions Dempster's rule of combination is of particular importance for the integration of different bodies of evidence. In this article a set of axioms is presented that uniquely determines this rule. As the axioms reflect just the intuitive idea of partially moveable e
Dempster has proposed a rule for the combination of uncertain items of information issued from several sources. This note proves the unicity of this rule under an independence assumption. The existence of alternative rules is stressed, some corresponding to different assumptions, others pertaining t