Consonant approximations of belief functions on the consonant simplex
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1 The consonant approximation problem Given a belief function b ∈ B and a sub-class of b.f.s A, the problem consists on finding the function a ∈ A which the " closest " to b, according to some criterion (for instance by minimizing a certain distance function d(a, b)). 1.1 Previous solutions 1.2 Paper outline 2 Geometry of consonant belief functions 2.1 Consonant belief functions The theory of evidence [1] was introduced in the late Seventies by Glenn Shafer as a way of representing epistemic knowledge, starting from a sequence of
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