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Partially Specified Belief Functions

Artificial Intelligence 2013-03-08 v1

Abstract

This paper presents a procedure to determine a complete belief function from the known values of belief for some of the subsets of the frame of discerment. The method is based on the principle of minimum commitment and a new principle called the focusing principle. This additional principle is based on the idea that belief is specified for the most relevant sets: the focal elements. The resulting procedure is compared with existing methods of building complete belief functions: the minimum specificity principle and the least commitment principle.

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@article{arxiv.1303.1513,
  title  = {Partially Specified Belief Functions},
  author = {Serafin Moral and Luis M. de Campos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1303.1513},
  year   = {2013}
}

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Appears in Proceedings of the Ninth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI1993)

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