RES - a Relative Method for Evidential Reasoning
This addresses a methodological issue in evidential reasoning systems, but appears incremental as it modifies how evidence strength is represented rather than introducing a new paradigm.
The paper tackles the problem of evidential reasoning by proposing a novel method called RES that models evidence strength through comparative arguments between statements rather than numerical values associated with individual statements, though no concrete results or numbers are provided.
In this paper we describe a novel method for evidential reasoning [1]. It involves modelling the process of evidential reasoning in three steps, namely, evidence structure construction, evidence accumulation, and decision making. The proposed method, called RES, is novel in that evidence strength is associated with an evidential support relationship (an argument) between a pair of statements and such strength is carried by comparison between arguments. This is in contrast to the onventional approaches, where evidence strength is represented numerically and is associated with a statement.