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This is a collection of classic research papers on the Dempster-Shafer theory of belief functions. The book is the authoritative reference in the field of evidential reasoning and an important archival reference in a wide range of areas including uncertainty reasoning in artificial intelligence and decision making in economics, engineering, and management. The book includes a foreword reflecting the development of the theory in the last forty years.

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Author:   Ronald R. Yager ,  Liping Liu
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Edition:   Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2008
Volume:   219
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 4.10cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.246kg
ISBN:  

9783642064784

ISBN 10:   3642064787
Pages:   806
Publication Date:   23 November 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of print, replaced by POD  
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Table of Contents

Classic Works of the Dempster-Shafer Theory of Belief Functions: An Introduction.- New Methods for Reasoning Towards Posterior Distributions Based on Sample Data.- Upper and Lower Probabilities Induced by a Multivalued Mapping.- A Generalization of Bayesian Inference.- On Random Sets and Belief Functions.- Non-Additive Probabilities in the Work of Bernoulli and Lambert.- Allocations of Probability.- Computational Methods for A Mathematical Theory of Evidence.- Constructive Probability.- Belief Functions and Parametric Models.- Entropy and Specificity in a Mathematical Theory of Evidence.- A Method for Managing Evidential Reasoning in a Hierarchical Hypothesis Space.- Languages and Designs for Probability Judgment.- A Set-Theoretic View of Belief Functions.- Weights of Evidence and Internal Conflict for Support Functions.- A Framework for Evidential-Reasoning Systems.- Epistemic Logics, Probability, and the Calculus of Evidence.- Implementing Dempster’s Rule for Hierarchical Evidence.- Some Characterizations of Lower Probabilities and Other Monotone Capacities through the use of Möbius Inversion.- Axioms for Probability and Belief-Function Propagation.- Generalizing the Dempster–Shafer Theory to Fuzzy Sets.- Bayesian Updating and Belief Functions.- Belief-Function Formulas for Audit Risk.- Decision Making Under Dempster–Shafer Uncertainties.- Belief Functions: The Disjunctive Rule of Combination and the Generalized Bayesian Theorem.- Representation of Evidence by Hints.- Combining the Results of Several Neural Network Classifiers.- The Transferable Belief Model.- A k-Nearest Neighbor Classification Rule Based on Dempster-Shafer Theory.- Logicist Statistics II: Inference.

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