Our ability to induce the general from the specific is a hallmark of human cognition. Inductive reasoning tasks ask participants to determine how strongly a set of premises (e.g., Collies have sesamoid bones) imply a conclusion (Dogs have sesamoid bones). Here, we present evidence for an abductive theory of inductive reasoning, according to which inductive strength is determined by treating the...

The purpose of this chapter is to demonstrate the use of evidential reasoning approach under Dempster-Shafer (D-S) theory of belief functions to analyze revealed causal maps. Revealed causal mapping (RCM) technique, as applied in this chapter, is a qualitative method used to develop or extend understanding of a phenomenon within a specific context. The map can be used to develop models, either ...

Automatic main subject detection refers to the problem of determining salient or interesting objects in a photograph. We have used a multilevel Bayesian network-based approach for solving this problem in the unconstrained domain of consumer photographs. In our previous work, we described building an evidential reasoning and image sensor fusion framework that uses a number of low-level and high-...

In order to solve the problem of target recognition in the complex environment of the multi-source detection, a kind of D-S evidence reasoning method based on data association is put forward. This paper analyzes the condition and method of data associated and evidence reasoning, also establishes the D-S evidential reasoning algorithm for target recognition based on data association. It uses fou...

A scientific environmental investment prediction plays a crucial role in controlling pollution and avoiding the blind of management. However effective usually has to fact three challenges about diversiform indicators, insufficient data, reliability models. In present study, new model is proposed using extended belief rule-based system (EBRBS) evidential reasoning (ER) rule, called ensemble EBRB...

In current research of complex system health assessment with evidential reasoning (ER) rule, the relationship between indicators reference grades and pre-defined result is regarded as a one to correspondence. However, in engineering practice, this strict mapping difficult meet, it may degrease accuracy assessment. Therefore, new ER rule-based model for transformation matrix adopted. First, on b...