A Distance between Continuous Belief Functions
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In the theory of belief functions, distances between basic belief assignments are very important in many applications like clustering, conflict measuring, reliability estimation. In the discrete domain, many measures have been proposed, however, distance between continuous belief functions have been marginalized due to the nature of these functions. In this paper, we propose an adaptation inspired from the Jousselme’s distance for continuous belief functions.
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