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Conditional Belief Structures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 July 2009

Jürg Kohlas
Jürg Kohlas
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Institute for Automation and Operations Research University of Fribourg, Switzerland
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The mathematical theory of evidence (Shafer et al. [9]) has recently found much interest as an approach to treat uncertainty in expert and knowledge-based systems. Although the theory is very promising, there are not yet many practical applications. Modeling practice has still to be developed. This is a crucial task in view of facilitating the application of evidential modeling. It is the aim of this paper to discuss an important element of evidential modeling–conditional belief–within the scope of the mathematical theory of evidence.

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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences , Volume 2 , Issue 4 , October 1988 , pp. 415 - 433
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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