Decision Making in Uncertain Situations

An Extension to the Mathematical Theory of Evidence

Omschrijving

The main problem addressed by this work is how to model and combine bodies of knowledge (or evidence) while maintaining the representation of the unkowledge and of the conflict among the bodies. This is a problem with far-reaching applications in many knowledge segments, in particular for the fields of artificial intelligence, product design, decision making, knowledge engineering and uncertain probability. It must be kept in mind that knowledge based systems depend on algorithms able to relate the inputs of a system to a correct answer coming out of the knowledge-base, and both the inputs and the knowledge-base are subject to information imperfections caused by the unknowledge and the conflict. There are several formalism to deal with knowledge representation and combination, among them the Mathematical Theory of Evidence or Dempster-Shafer Theory. This work extends the Mathematical Theory of Evidence through the adoption of a new rule for the combination of evidence and a companion set of concepts. This extension solves the counter-intuitive problems illustrated in the original theory, extends its power of expression and allows the representation of uncertainty in the results. The representation of uncertainty implies the possibility of its use in decision-making and also makes explicit the relationship between the numeric results achieved and the results from classical probability theory.
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Schrijver
Campos, Fabio
Titel
Decision Making in Uncertain Situations
Uitgever
Dissertation.Com. - Do Not Use
Jaar
2006
Taal
Engels
Pagina's
124
Gewicht
237 gr
EAN
9781581123357
Afmetingen
246 x 189 x 7 mm
Bindwijze
Paperback

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