Given a number of Dempster-Shafer belief functions there are different architectures which allow to do a compilation of the given knowledge. These architectures are the Shenoy-Shafer Architecture, the Lauritzen-Spiegelhalter Architecture and the HUGIN Architecture. We propose a new architecture called ”Fast-Division Architecture” which is similar to the former two. But there are two important a...

the goal of this research is gully erosion hazard zoning by using dempster-shafer theory for the garnaveh watershed (golestan province). for this purpose, at first a gully erosion inventory map with the scale of 1:200000 (dependent variable) for the gharnaveh watershed has been prepared using multiple field surveys and satellite pictures. from total gullies 70% of them have randomly selected fo...

introduction environmental impact assessment is a systematic process to identify, predict and evaluate the environmental effects of proposed actions and projects. this process is applied prior to major decisions and commitments being made. environment, social, cultural and health effects are considered as an integral part of eia. particular attention is paid to eia practice for preventing, miti...

The Dempster-Shafer (D-S) theory is an excellent method of information fusion. Because of the difference which is caused by the sensors, it is essential to deal with the evidence with a method of weighed D-S theory. The new method to deal with data fusion based on improved D-S theory has been proposed, and set up the concept of weight of sensor evidence itself and evidence distance based on a q...

This reply to papers by Pearl and Shafer focuses on two issues underlying the debate on the validity o f using Dempster-Shafer theory, namely the requirement of a process-independent semantics and the a priori need for multiple uncertainty calculi. Pearl shows deficiencies of Dempster-Shafer theory in dealing with several instances o f commonsense reasoning in a process-independent manner. Alth...

In this paper, a novel justification of the disjunctive combination rule for multiple independent sources of information based on the redefined combination-mapping rule of multiple multi-valued mappings in the product space of multiple independent sources of information is being proposed. The combination rule reveals a type of logical inference in the human judgment, that is, the OR rule. It ov...

Multi-expert constructing Fuzzy cognitive map is a typical multiexpert knowledge combination problem. In this paper, we investigate the use of Dempster-Shafer evidence theory as a tool for multi-expert knowledge combination. In proposed method, we use each expert opinion as a evidence, the possible value of weight as frame of discernment, the expert’s evaluation to a weight on frame of discernm...

Multi-granularity unbalanced hesitant fuzzy linguistic term set (MGUHFLTS) is an effective expression of information, which applied in multi-attribute group decision-making (MAGDM), meanwhile Dempster-Shafer evidence theory (DSET) profound method representing and aggregating uncertain information. In order to combine the advantages from both, a new MAGDM approach based on with MGUHFLTSs propose...

We present a Dempster–Shafer (DS) approach to estimating limits from Poisson counting data with nuisance parameters. Dempster– Shafer is a statistical framework that generalizes Bayesian statistics. DS calculus augments traditional probability by allowing mass to be distributed over power sets of the event space. This eliminates the Bayesian dependence on prior distributions while allowing the ...