Discounting and Combination Operations in Evidential Reasoning
Artificial Intelligence
2013-03-08 v1
Abstract
Evidential reasoning is now a leading topic in Artificial Intelligence. Evidence is represented by a variety of evidential functions. Evidential reasoning is carried out by certain kinds of fundamental operation on these functions. This paper discusses two of the basic operations on evidential functions, the discount operation and the well-known orthogonal sum operation. We show that the discount operation is not commutative with the orthogonal sum operation, and derive expressions for the two operations applied to the various evidential function.
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@article{arxiv.1303.1511,
title = {Discounting and Combination Operations in Evidential Reasoning},
author = {Jiwen W. Guan and David A. Bell},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1303.1511},
year = {2013}
}
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Appears in Proceedings of the Ninth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI1993)