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One of the most important aspects in any treatment of uncertain information is the rule of combination for updating the degrees of uncertainty. The theory of belief functions uses the Dempster rule to combine two belief functions defined by…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-04-05 Michael S. K. M. Wong , P. Lingras

Knowledge can be represented compactly in multiple ways, from a set of propositional formulas, to a Kripke model, to a database. In this paper we study the aggregation of information coming from multiple sources, each source submitting a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Francesco Belardinelli , Umberto Grandi

This paper discusses an expert system shell that integrates rule-based reasoning and the Dempster-Shafer evidence combination scheme. Domain knowledge is stored as rules with associated belief functions. The reasoning component uses a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-04-11 Gautam Biswas , Teywansh S. Anand

Knowledge facts are typically represented by relational triples, while we observe that some commonsense facts are represented by the triples whose forms are inconsistent with the expression of language. This inconsistency puts forward a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Yi Zhang , Lei Li , Yunfang Wu , Qi Su , Xu Sun

We revisit Zadeh's notion of "evidence of the second kind" and show that it provides the foundation for a general theory of epistemic random fuzzy sets, which generalizes both the Dempster-Shafer theory of belief functions and possibility…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Thierry Denoeux

Abductive reasoning is the process of making educated guesses to provide explanations for observations. Although many applications require the use of knowledge for explanations, the utilization of abductive reasoning in conjunction with…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Jiaxin Bai , Yicheng Wang , Tianshi Zheng , Yue Guo , Xin Liu , Yangqiu Song

Developing a general information processing model in uncertain environments is fundamental for the advancement of explainable artificial intelligence. Dempster-Shafer theory of evidence is a well-known and effective reasoning method for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Qianli Zhou , Tianxiang Zhan , Yong Deng

The management and combination of uncertain, imprecise, fuzzy and even paradoxical or high conflicting sources of information has always been and still remains of primal importance for the development of reliable information fusion systems.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Jean Dezert , Florentin Smarandache

When we merge information in Dempster-Shafer Theory (DST), we are faced with anomalous behavior: agents with equal expertise and credibility can have their opinion disregarded after resorting to the belief combination rule of this theory.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Francisco Aragão , João Alcântara

In the canonical examples underlying Shafer-Dempster theory, beliefs over the hypotheses of interest are derived from a probability model for a set of auxiliary hypotheses. Beliefs are derived via a compatibility relation connecting the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-04-11 Kathryn Blackmond Laskey

This paper explores belief inference in credal networks using Dempster-Shafer theory. By building on previous work, we propose a novel framework for propagating uncertainty through a subclass of credal networks, namely chains. The proposed…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Marco Sangalli , Thomas Krak , Cassio de Campos

Dempster-Shafer Theory (DST) generalizes Bayesian probability theory, offering useful additional information, but suffers from a high computational burden. A lot of work has been done to reduce the complexity of computations used in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Maxime Chaveroche , Franck Davoine , Véronique Cherfaoui

The problem of combining beliefs in the Dempster-Shafer belief theory has attracted considerable attention over the last two decades. The classical Dempster's Rule has often been criticised, and many alternative rules for belief combination…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Audun Josang

This paper will focus on the process of 'fusing' several observations or models of uncertainty into a single resultant model. Many existing approaches to fusion use subjective quantities such as 'strengths of belief' and process these…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Shawn C. Eastwood , Svetlana N. Yanushkevich

In pattern recognition, handling uncertainty is a critical challenge that significantly affects decision-making and classification accuracy. Dempster-Shafer Theory (DST) is an effective reasoning framework for addressing uncertainty, and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Juntao Xu , Tianxiang Zhan , Yong Deng

The belief function approach to uncertainty quantification as proposed in the Demspter-Shafer theory of evidence is established upon the general mathematical models for set-valued observations, called random sets. Set-valued predictions are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Shireen Kudukkil Manchingal , Fabio Cuzzolin

By elaborating on the notion of linear belief functions (Dempster 1990; Liu 1996), we propose an elementary approach to knowledge representation for expert systems using linear belief functions. We show how to use basic matrices to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-12-12 Liping Liu , Catherine Shenoy , Prakash P. Shenoy

Knowledge representation it is an essential section of a Expert Systems, Because in this section we have a framework to establish an expert system then we can modeling and use by this to design an expert system. Many method it is exist for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Mehdi Bahrami

Knowledge graphs (KGs) have gained prominence for their ability to learn representations for uni-relational facts. Recently, research has focused on modeling hyper-relational facts, which move beyond the restriction of uni-relational facts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Harry Shomer , Wei Jin , Juanhui Li , Yao Ma , Jiliang Tang

Distributed representations (such as those based on embeddings) and discrete representations (such as those based on logic) have complementary strengths. We explore one possible approach to combining these two kinds of representations. We…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-02-06 Ramanathan Guha