Elicitation of Expert Opinions for Constructing Belief Functions
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This paper presents a method for constructing belief functions from elicited expert opinions expressed in terms of qualitative preference relations. These preferences are transformed into constraints of an optimization problem whose resolution allows the generation of the least informative belief functions according to some uncertainty measures. Mono-objective and Multiobjective optimization techniques are used to optimize one or different uncertainty measures simultaneously.
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