Can Evidence Be Combined in the Dempster-Shafer Theory
Artificial Intelligence
2013-04-11 v1
Abstract
Dempster's rule of combination has been the most controversial part of the Dempster-Shafer (D-S) theory. In particular, Zadeh has reached a conjecture on the noncombinability of evidence from a relational model of the D-S theory. In this paper, we will describe another relational model where D-S masses are represented as conditional granular distributions. By comparing it with Zadeh's relational model, we will show how Zadeh's conjecture on combinability does not affect the applicability of Dempster's rule in our model.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.1304.2718,
title = {Can Evidence Be Combined in the Dempster-Shafer Theory},
author = {John Yen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1304.2718},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
Appears in Proceedings of the Third Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI1987)