BACKGROUND Palliative care clinicians confront suffering as they care for people living with life-limiting conditions. When the degree of suffering becomes unjustified, moral distress can ensue. Promising work from neuroscience and social psychology has yet to be applied to clinical practice. OBJECTIVE Our objective was to expand a social psychology model focusing on empathy and compassion in...

Dempster’s Rule is commonly described as an operator for fusing beliefs. While there are different possible interpretations of belief fusion, there is considerable confusion regarding the exact type of belief fusion that Dempster’s rule performs. Many alternative operators for belief fusion have been proposed, where some are based on the same fundamental principle as Dempster’s rule, and others...

The recent theory of plausible and paradoxical reasoning (DSmT) developed by the authors appears to be a nice promising theoretical tools to solve many information fusion problems where the Shafer’s model cannot be used due to the intrinsic paradoxical nature of the elements of the frame of discernment and where a strong internal conflict between sources arises. The main idea of DSmT is to work...

Frost is one of the atmospheric phenomena which seriously threaten crop production. It also causes numerousaccidents in mountainous roads. In this research the Spatial Synoptic Classification SSC method was employed toclassify the type of air masses. For the classification, such meteorological data as: temperature, dew point, mean sealevel pressure, cloudiness, direction and speed of wind were ...

In smart homes, many context attributes, i.e. small pieces of context, have to be computed from sensors in order to provide adapted services. We observe that many of those context attributes can be deduced from others. This paper presents how methods to propagate belief functions from one frame of discernment to another can be used to compute contexts. It enables the creation of evidential netw...

Abstract: Although music exists in every observed culture, ethnomusicologists suggest that music is not the “universal language,” because of the tremendous variation between music of different cultures. However, evidences from mathematics, psychoacoustics, neurobiology, cognitive science, and anthropology suggest an innate inclination of human beings toward Western harmony. The present study re...

Abstract – This paper presents a multiresolution-economic model which mediates data uncertainty by providing levels of discernment for decision making. Standard monetary and fiscal policy models use national income and national output as input variables, perform a stability analysis by balancing the equations, and assess the interest rate of the economy. These models typically assume that data ...

In this paper, we study the classical sensitivity analysis when the right - hand – side vector, and the coefficients of the objective function are allowed to vary. 

With the increasing number of focal elements in frame of discernment, computational complexity of DSmT(Dezert-Smarandache Theory) increases exponentially, which blocks the wide application and development of DSmT. To solve this problem, a new evidence clustering DSmT approximate reasoning method is proposed in this paper based on convex functions analysis. The computational complexity of the me...