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Evidential reasoning in expert systems has often used ad-hoc uncertainty calculi. Although it is generally accepted that probability theory provides a firm theoretical foundation, researchers have found some problems with its use as a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-04-15 Robert Fung , Chee Yee Chong

A computer Program Capable of performing at a human-expert level in a narrow problem domain area is called an expert system. Management of uncertainty is an intrinsically important issue in the design of expert systems because much of the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-01-03 S. J Gath , R. V Kulkarni

The Dempster--Shafer (DS) theory is a powerful tool for probabilistic reasoning based on a formal calculus for combining evidence. DS theory has been widely used in computer science and engineering applications, but has yet to reach the…

Methodology · Statistics 2010-11-04 Ryan Martin , Jianchun Zhang , Chuanhai Liu

The automation of the medical evidence acquisition and diagnosis process has recently attracted increasing attention in order to reduce the workload of doctors and democratize access to medical care. However, most works proposed in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Arsene Fansi Tchango , Rishab Goel , Julien Martel , Zhi Wen , Gaetan Marceau Caron , Joumana Ghosn

In this paper, we present some results of evidential reasoning in understanding multispectral images of remote sensing systems. The Dempster-Shafer approach of combination of evidences is pursued to yield contextual classification results,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-04-11 Minchuan Zhang , Su-shing Chen

Combining evidence from different sources can be achieved with Bayesian or Dempster-Shafer methods. The first requires an estimate of the priors and likelihoods while the second only needs an estimate of the posterior probabilities and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Fabrice Daniel

In this paper we extend an earlier result within Dempster-Shafer theory ["Fast Dempster-Shafer Clustering Using a Neural Network Structure," in Proc. Seventh Int. Conf. Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Johan Schubert

The paper presents a novel view of the Dempster-Shafer belief function as a measure of diversity in relational data bases. It is demonstrated that under the interpretation The Dempster rule of evidence combination corresponds to the join…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-04-11 Mieczysław A. Kłopotek , Sławomir T. Wierzchoń

In mission-critical domains such as law enforcement and medical diagnosis, the ability to explain and interpret the outputs of deep learning models is crucial for ensuring user trust and supporting informed decision-making. Despite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Bharat Chandra Yalavarthi , Nalini Ratha

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

Fault detection in sensor nodes is a pertinent issue that has been an important area of research for a very long time. But it is not explored much as yet in the context of Internet of Things. Internet of Things work with a massive amount of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Nimisha Ghosh , Rourab Paul , Satyabrata Maity , Krishanu Maity , Sayantan Saha

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

This research paper outlines the development and implementation of a novel Clinical Decision Support System (CDSS) that integrates AI predictive modeling with medical knowledge bases. It utilizes the quantifiable information elements in lab…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Muhammad Hammad Maqsood , Mubashir Sajid , Khubaib Ahmed , Muhammad Usamah Shahid , Muddassar Farooq

Rule based classifiers that use the presence and absence of key sub-strings to make classification decisions have a natural mechanism for quantifying the uncertainty of their precision. For a binary classifier, the key insight is to treat…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-20 James Nutaro , Ozgur Ozmen

Artificial intelligence systems, which are designed with a capability to learn from the data presented to them, are used throughout society. These systems are used to screen loan applicants, make sentencing recommendations for criminal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-05 Jeremy Straub

In this paper, we generalize the basic notions and results of Dempster-Shafer theory from predicates to formal concepts. Results include the representation of conceptual belief functions as inner measures of suitable probability functions,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Sabine Frittella , Krishna Manoorkar , Alessandra Palmigiano , Apostolos Tzimoulis , Nachoem M. Wijnberg

In this paper, we design and implement a generic medical knowledge based system (MKBS) for identifying diseases from several symptoms. In this system, some important aspects like knowledge bases system, knowledge representation, inference…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Xin Huang , Xuejiao Tang , Wenbin Zhang , Shichao Pei , Ji Zhang , Mingli Zhang , Zhen Liu , Ruijun Chen , Yiyi Huang

Temporal knowledge graph reasoning aims to predict future events with knowledge of existing facts and plays a key role in various downstream tasks. Previous methods focused on either graph structure learning or semantic reasoning, failing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Yimin Deng , Yuxia Wu , Yejing Wang , Guoshuai Zhao , Li Zhu , Qidong Liu , Derong Xu , Zichuan Fu , Xian Wu , Yefeng Zheng , Xiangyu Zhao , Xueming Qian

The use of Artificial Intelligence is finding prominence not only in core computer areas, but also in cross disciplinary areas including medical diagnosis. In this paper, we present a rule based Expert System used in diagnosis of Cerebral…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Rajdeep Borgohain , Sugata Sanyal

Mathematical Theory of Evidence called also Dempster-Shafer Theory (DST) is known as a foundation for reasoning when knowledge is expressed at various levels of detail. Though much research effort has been committed to this theory since its…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-07-14 Mieczysław A. Kłopotek