This paper analyzes the theoretical under­ pinnings of recent proposals for computing Dempster-Shafer Belief functions from ATMS labels. Such proposals are intended to be a means of integrating symbolic and numeric rep­ resentation methods and of focusing search in the ATMS. This synthesis is formalized us­ ing graph theory, thus showing the relation­ ship between graph theory, the logic-theore...

In pattern analysis, information regarding an object can often be drawn from its surround­ ings. This paper presents a method for handling uncertainty when using context of symbols and texts for analyzing technical drawings. The method is based on Dempster-Shafer theory and possibility theory. 1 Introduction In several pattern analysis problems it is interesting to look at the context in which ...

The Dempster-Shafer “theory of evidence” encompasses and extends the Bayes Theorem-based decision making machinery. Dempster-Shafer’s innovation is the introduction of lower and upper bounds, designated “belief” and “plausibility”, that are attached to probability estimates. The Dempster-Shafer algebra provides for propagation of and reasoning about these quantities according to an algebra whos...

We study the problem of decision making with Dempster-Shafer belief structure. We analyze the previous work developed by Yager about using the ordered weighted averaging (OWA) operator in the aggregation of the Dempster-Shafer decision process. We discuss the possibility of aggregating with an ascending order in the OWA operator for the cases where the smallest value is the best result. We sugg...

The present state of development of Dempster-Shafer theory is surveyed and its place among theories of dealing with uncertainty in AI is discussed. No knowledge of the theory is assumed.

In this note, we argue that the axiomatic requirement of range to the measure of aggregated total uncertainty (ATU) in Dempster-Shafer theory is not reasonable.

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The conditioning in the Dempster-Shafer Theory of Evidence has been defined (by Shafer [15] as combination of a belief function and of an ”event” via Dempster rule. On the other hand Shafer [15] gives a ”probabilistic” interpretation of a belief function (hence indirectly its derivation from a sample). Given the fact that conditional probability distribution of a sample-derived probability dist...

The Dempster-Shafer theory gives a solid basis for reasoning appl icat ions characterized by uncertainty. A key feature of the theory is that proposi t ions are represented as subsets of a set which represents a hypothesis space. Th is power set along w i t h the set operations is a Boolean algebra. Can we generalize the theory to cover a rb i t ra ry Boolean algebras ? We show that the answer ...