A Simple View of the Dempster-Shafer Theory of Evidence and Its Implication for the Rule of Combination

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  • Lotfi A. Zadeh

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https://doi.org/10.1609/aimag.v7i2.542

Abstract

During the past two years, the Dempster-Shafer theory of evidence has attracted considerable attention within the AI community as a promising method of dealing with uncertainty in expert systems. As presented in the literature, the theory is hard to master. In a simple approach that is outlined in this paper, the Dempster-Shafer theory is viewed in the context of relational databases as the application of familiar retrieval techniques to second-order relations in first normal form. The relational viewpoint clarifies some of the controversial issues in the Dempster-Shafer theory and facilities its use in AI-oriented applications.

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Published

1986-06-15

How to Cite

Zadeh, L. A. (1986). A Simple View of the Dempster-Shafer Theory of Evidence and Its Implication for the Rule of Combination. AI Magazine, 7(2), 85. https://doi.org/10.1609/aimag.v7i2.542

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