AIMar 6, 2013
The Assumptions Behind Dempster's Rule
arXiv:1303.1518v120 citations
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This work addresses a foundational issue in uncertainty reasoning for researchers in belief function theory, offering a justification but is incremental as it builds on existing concepts.
The paper tackles the problem of justifying Dempster's rule for combining belief functions by showing that it is uniquely determined by two simple and reasonable assumptions, providing a new theoretical foundation for it.
This paper examines the concept of a combination rule for belief functions. It is shown that two fairly simple and apparently reasonable assumptions determine Dempster's rule, giving a new justification for it.