Title :
Enhancing flexibility of belief representations
Author :
Senaratne, Damith ; Kulasekere, Chulantha
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Moratuwa, Moratuwa
Abstract :
Several attempts have been made to enhance the flexibility of belief representation in the Shafer model. This paper questions their ability to retain the intuitiveness. A method of enhancing the flexibility of belief representations, without compromising the intuitiveness is proposed. In it we relax the Shafer´s exclusivity constraint by disregarding the formalism: ´subsets as propositions´ and expressing support as functions of propositions. A compact and intuitive notation for propositions, termed N-of, is introduced. This notation simplifies the formulation of propositions from the statements humans make.
Keywords :
uncertainty handling; Shafer model; belief representations; propositions functions; Bayesian methods; Humans; Mathematical model; Probability distribution; Scholarships; Uncertainty;
Conference_Titel :
Networking, Sensing and Control, 2008. ICNSC 2008. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Sanya
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1685-1
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1686-8
DOI :
10.1109/ICNSC.2008.4525479