DocumentCode
2446276
Title
Constructing Belief Functions from Qualitative Expert Opinions
Author
Ben Yaghlane, Amel ; Denoeux, Thierry ; Mellouli, Khaled
Author_Institution
Univ. de Technologie de Compiegne
Volume
1
fYear
0
fDate
0-0 0
Firstpage
1363
Lastpage
1368
Abstract
A new method for constructing belief functions from elicited expert opinions is proposed. It consists in representing qualitatively expert opinions in terms of preference relations. These relations are transformed into constraints of an optimization problem whose resolution allows the generation of the least informative belief functions according to some uncertainty measures. Mono-objective and multiobjective optimization techniques are used to optimize, respectively, one or simultaneously different uncertainty measures
Keywords
belief networks; expert systems; optimisation; belief functions; monoobjective optimization; multiobjective optimization; optimization problem; preference relations; qualitative expert opinion; uncertainty measure; Constraint optimization; Context modeling; Measurement uncertainty; Possibility theory;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Information and Communication Technologies, 2006. ICTTA '06. 2nd
Conference_Location
Damascus
Print_ISBN
0-7803-9521-2
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ICTTA.2006.1684579
Filename
1684579
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