An epistemological perspective
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For about three decades, artificial intelligence has been concerned with a debate on the adequacy of probability for treating uncertainty. The transferable belief model is an alternative framework that resulted from that debate. The peculiarity of the transferable belief model is its dichotomical structure in which a non-Bayesian knowledge representation co-exists with a Bayesian de-
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