Discounting and Combination Operations in Evidential Reasoning
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چکیده
Evidential reasoning is now a leading topic in Artificial Intelligence. Evidence is repre sented by a variety of evidential functions. Evidential reasoning is carried out by cer tain 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 or thogonal sum operation. We show that the discount operation is not commutative with the orthogonal sum operation, and derive ex pressions for the two operations applied to the various evidential functions.
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